SHARAF, based on Sonallah Ibrahim's famous novel, is the story of a modern Candide in a dystopian Arab World. When Sharaf kills a man in self-defense and is put in jail, he has to wake up from his dreams of wealth and consumption. The microcosm of prison mirrors the complex situation of Arab societies living under dictatorship and poverty, dependent on an unjust global economic system. Sharaf decides to achieve his own social advancement behind prison bars. But he will have to pay a very high price for it.