A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.
Unfortunately the movie The Leech is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Camera | Wahid Farid | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Salah Abu Seif | Director |
| Production | Ramses Naguib | Producer |
| Production | Wahid Farid | Producer |
| Sound | Fouad El-Zahry | Music |
| Writing | Fathy Koura | Lyricist |
| Sound | Naguib El Silahdar | Music |
| Sound | Shadia | Songs |
| Sound | Mounir Mourad | Music |
| Writing | Morsi Gameel Aziz | Lyricist |
| Production | Khalil Diab | Production Manager |
| Production | Adib Gaber | Production Manager |
| Art | Wali Eddine Sameh | Decorator |
| Art | Abdel Hamid El Sakhawy | Decorator |
| Writing | Amin Yousseff Ghurab | Story |
| Writing | ElSayed Bedir | Dialogue |
| Writing | Salah Abu Seif | Scenario Writer |
| Directing | Tolba Radwan | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ahmed El-Sabawy | Script Supervisor |
| Camera | Abdallah Yacout | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | Kamal Karim | Camera Operator |
| Editing | انجا وميلا | Negative Cutter |
| Editing | عطية عبده | Editor |
| Sound | Krikor | Sound Engineer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mitcho | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Wali El Sayed | Casting |
