One of the actors, an Austrian, had to be replaced because he was stabbed when an Iraqi attacked several Europeans just weeks before production began.
Casting the lead actress proved very difficult as most Yemeni women worried that appearing in a film would hurt their prospects of marriage. A Lebanese actress was cast.
On the first day of shooting in Feb. 2004, a group of Islamic extremists stormed the set and stopped production. Soldiers had to guard the set after this incident.
The Ministry of Culture granted a $40,000 subsidy after it approved the script. It would later barred the finished film from being shown in Yemen.
The first feature film ever shot in Yemen.