Salama al-Aghawany, the famous Syrian monologue artist, at a fund-raising activity in the Christian neighborhood of Qasaa in Damascus in 1951. At this event, he is trying to raise funds for an NGO of bank employees so they can rent an office for thier activities. With sharp humor, he targets his patron Fakhri al-Barudi, and Pierre Mukannas, director of Banque de Syrie et du Liban