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Layla in the dark

  • Drama
  • Music

February 24, 1944 (EG)

2h 10m

Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hussein can avoid life with a co-...

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