HOUSE OF THE COPTIC WOMANNader, an idealistic public prosecutor at the outset of his career, leaves Cairo to start a new posting in rural upper Egypt. On his first night, a mysterious woman named Hoda shows up at his lodgings. She is on the run from an abusive husband and, harboring a dark secret, seeks a new start in this small village and hopes to escape her harrowing past. Nothing is to be easy for Hoda or Nader, and the dramatic circumstances of their first meeting signal