Al-Kahol is a feature-length investigative documentary about why residential buildings in Alexandria keep collapsing, and who pays the price. Across the city, thousands of illegal buildings have gone up in recent years. Many of them have been fatal. When they fall, killing residents and displacing entire families, the police investigations almost always close the same way: perpetrator unknown. The film follows that word, unknown, into the streets where buildings are still being thrown up overnight, and into the world of al-kahol: the local term for the man whose name goes on the paperwork when the real criminals need someone to disappear behind. We meet the contractors, the engineers, the brokers, and the people who became names on a document for a few hundred pounds because they had nothing left to sell.