Samer & Shaher & Baher 2010

Mounir's best day and its consequences

The film opens with Mounir recalling his 'best day' when he met three women and invited them to a party. He marries and impregnates all three, but the next day he regrets the move and divorces them. He never meets any of his three children.

Twenty years later: the three children grow up estranged

Two decades pass and the three children become engineers who are bitter toward each other. They are named after their grandfathers, carrying the weight of a fractured family history. Their shared past fuels mutual distrust.

Samir aims to be a movie star and auditions as a stunt double

Samir idolizes Ahmed El Saqqa and longs to be a movie star by acting as his stunt double. He trains to mimic Saqqa's style but fails to capture the same prowess during stunts. His ambition foreshadows a collision between performance and reality.

Shahir: artistic but frustrated, the ladies' man

Shahir is a heavy-set, artistic young man whose poetry and music are not understood by the women around him. He chases artistic recognition and clashes with how others perceive his talent. His frustration hints at the upcoming chaos.

Bahir: the spoiled mama's boy and a peculiar habit

Bahir indulges in luxury and carries a fixation on underwear, which he treats as essential to life. His extravagant lifestyle alienates him from his brothers and common sense. The obsession foreshadows trouble to come.

Graduation project launch and the decision to imitate

At graduation, the professor reveals a randomization method based on birthdays, noting the three half-brothers share a birth month. He hints at finishing a project started twenty years earlier. The trio decides to imitate the professor's project and pass it off as their own.

Time machine activated: a jump to the past

That night, the trio sneaks into the lab and activates the invention, which turns out to be a time machine set to go twenty years into the past in the late 1970s. They split up to pursue their agendas in this new timeline. The jump plunges them into a familiar-but-foreign era.

Shahir meets Mounir and the beauty contest episode

Shahir travels to the past to meet his father, Mounir, and they bond over their shared charm. They attend a beauty contest where Mounir gives a rose to the winner and invites her to his party. Later, a hospital detour brings Shahir into contact with his mother Shahira.

Bahir meets Bahira and the future factory connection

Bahir meets Bahira, his future mother, during the beauty pageant. Bahira is impressed by his predictive tales and introduces him to her father, who runs an underwear factory. Bahir’s flamboyance leads to a run-in with the law when a future ID exposes him to fraud.

Samir's reunion with the past: Antar and Samira

Samir hurries to the professor and convinces him to rebuild the invention to return to the future. He stumbles onto the production of Antar Bin Shadad and is mistaken for the lead, delivering a surprising performance by memorized lines. He also encounters Samira, a gold-digging mother, whose presence leads to an arrest for assault and a party invitation as apology.

The trio's prison break and the grandfather paradox

Samir, Shahir, and Bahir get incarcerated together in the past. They discover their mothers care more about their own lives than their father. They tunnel out, confront the professor, and face the looming grandfather paradox that threatens their existence.

Family schemes, weddings, and paradox resolution

The brothers attempt to force their parents to love each other at the upcoming party. They stage scandals and manipulations, hoping to secure marriages that would alter their lineage. The plan spirals, revealing how fragile history can be when meddled with by those who fear nonexistence.