Frame-within-a-frame shot through tall open French windows, Semiramis Hotel balcony overlooking the Nile, Cairo, 1950, morning. An unveiled Egyptian female correspondent in a smart blouse sits at a white-clothed breakfast table, absorbed in a newspaper headline, her coffee cooling. Beyond her, feluccas and the Nile shimmering, Gezira island trees. Sheer curtains moving in the breeze.