Henet Ward - fadetoblackent.com

Halima, a Sudanese henna painter goes to Basma’s, a young Egyptian bride to prepare her for her wedding: under the eyes of her daughter Ward, the encounter between the two women grows from complicity to suddenly unveiled tensions.

Henna painting is a well known profession in Egypt; especially in marriages and pre marriage ceremonies. Most of the professionals in this profession are the “Sudanese women” who fled their country escaping the hard economic circumstances; they come here to paint joy on the hands of the Egyptian girls through Henna in return for money