The Worthy

The Worthy is a narrative film that describes what will happen in a post-apocalyptic future where political conflicts go out of hand. The story begins with a truck driver that goes by the name of Shoaib (also known as Abu Eissa) picking up a stranger. The stranger warns him of what danger is to come due to these conflicts taking frightening twists. Shoaib listens to the man's advice and takes his two children Eissa and Maryam to seek shelter. One of the political parties decides to make matters worse by contaminating the water supply. Most of the population dies out of fear and hunger in the upcoming years; however Shoaib and his family along with a seven others find shelter with clean water in an abandoned airplane factory.

One night, Shoaib, Eissa, his righthand man Qais and Daoud encounter bandits who hold a vulnerable woman as bait; Shoaib falls victim to this but two other survivors passing by, Mussa and Gulbin, save him. Shoaib invites them in for food and shelter as guests and debates with the others whether to keep them permanently. Eissa insists they keep them as they saved his father's life, while the others say they cannot be trusted. Maryam states she doesn't trust Mussa, as Gulbin−who does not speak the common tongue−is scared of him. Jamaal, another survivor in the factory, mentions that Mussa still has a knife on him. The group has a rule, that weapons must be locked in a cabinet. When Shoaib asks for the knife, Mussa kills him, shouts that the earth is only for the worthy, and leaves.

Mussa starts killing off the survivors, first by turning off the water supply and booby-trapping its valve. Raed, a former teacher, dies and Daoud is injured. Jamaal distrusts Gulbin and falls out with Eissa who takes a liking towards Gulbin. Eissa, who is now leader, expels him.

Later, Eissa, Qais, and Reya (Raed's wife) go in search of water. They discover Jamaal tied and mutilated. This turns out to be another trap, which leads to Reya's death. Eissa and Qais return to the factory to find Gulbin, who was on watch, bleeding. Qais stays with her, while Eissa goes to help the others. He finds them dead except his sister, Maryam. She has a noose around her neck and is standing on a plane wing with Mussa on the other side. So he has a choice either kill Mussa and risk losing Maryam or save her and be killed. Maryam sacrifices herself and Mussa is killed. Eissa goes back to Qais and Gulbin to find him dead and Gulbin standing there; she speaks the common tongue and was the mastermind. She explains this was a test to find people to join their group (alif-yaa) who are going to build civilisation back up and tells him to meet them in Medina before knocking him unconscious. Now he is alone, wandering search of food. He comes across the man whom his father had encountered, the Seer, who explains that the group was formed to rebuild civilization but the catastrophe lowered people's standards and they accepted crazed people who liked the chaos. That is why he left and Shoaib helped him leave. Eissa leaves in the morning with weapons, heading towards Medina.

• Mahmoud Al Atrash : Eissa
• Rakeen Saad : Maryam
• Samer Ismail : Musa
• Maisa Abd Elhadi : Gulbin
• Samer al-Masri : Shuaib
• Ali Suliman : Jamal
• Habib Ghuloom Al Attar : Adam
• Ruba Blal : Raya
• Salah Hannoun : Qais
• Mohammad Al Ibrahimi : Raed
• Rashed Malhas : Idrees
• Mohammed Mostafa : Daoud
• Manal Shomaly : Hareem

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