A Matter of Life and Death

Haya lives as if the universe has put her on a ticking timer: loud, impulsive, darkly funny, and permanently on the edge of disaster. She treats life like a series of dares, bouncing between near-misses, reckless rituals, and a charming refusal to slow down. To everyone around her, she's chaos wrapped in glitter and ash. To herself, she's simply racing fate. After one of her many misadventures lands her in the emergency room, she collides with Youssef, a gifted heart surgeon whose existence is defined by control, logic, and emotional shutdown. His world is sterile, predictable, and immaculately ordered... everything Haya is not. Their encounter feels accidental to him, but to her it feels like destiny kicking in the door. Against his will and his logic, Youssef is pulled into Haya's high-voltage orbit: a whirlwind of impulsive meet-ups, strange beliefs, late-night conversations, awkward flirtation, and surreal intimacy. She disrupts his routines with color, noise, and fearless unpredictability, while he becomes an unexpected anchor in her unstable momentum. Their connection builds in bursts: funny, tender, frustrating, electric. The more time they spend together, the more their opposite rhythms begin to sync in strange and surprising ways, as each reflects back what the other has been avoiding fear for her, feeling for him. Stylized, fast, and emotionally charged, the film moves with pulpy romantic energy and dark humor, exploring youth, fatalism, intimacy, and the seductive danger of living with nothing to lose. At its core, it's a story about two broken systems colliding at full speed. One desperate to outrun the clock, the other terrified to let it start ticking set in a world where love arrives not as rescue, but as a beautifully inconvenient disruption.