After studying literature at Cairo University, 23 year-old Dunia wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arab poetry without any body movement, explaining to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke the act of love since society compels her to hide her femininity. She is selected, and meets Beshir, an intellectual and activist, who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society go deeper than she suspects. Kiss me Not on the Eyes is a daring and evocative film.