Juliette is a woman who married young and still ardently loves her husband Mark who works abroad. Their children have grown up and moved away. Life doing what it usually does to a marriage has replaced their hopes and dreams with accomplishment and responsibilities. In the back of her head Juliette had thought that sooner or later she and her husband would have time for each other which was the reason for her trip to Cairo.

In Cairo on her own as she waits for her husband she is kept company by her husband's friend Tareq a retired cop. As Tareq escorts Juliette around the city they find themselves in the middle of a brief affair that catches them both unawares.