Director: Rasha Sharbatji
Eighteen years after three Damascene children vanished without explanation, buried secrets finally begin to surface in "Born Into Wealth," a 2023 Syrian drama series built around a slow-burning battle between competing families.
What is Born Into Wealth about?
The premise of "Born Into Wealth" hinges on a single traumatic event from nearly two decades earlier: the disappearance of children belonging to three prominent leaders in Damascus. The series picks up in the present day, as the grown consequences of that unresolved event start pulling old alliances apart. Fortunes, reputations, and family loyalty are all tangled together, and characters who thought their pasts were settled discover that nothing was ever fully buried. Rather than following one protagonist, the show spreads its attention across an ensemble of relatives and rivals whose fates were quietly reshaped by what happened all those years ago, letting suspicion and long-delayed accountability drive the plot forward episode by episode. The result plays less like a conventional mystery and more like a slow reckoning between people bound together by history they didn't choose.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Abbas ElNoury and Mahmoud Nasr, joined by Amal Arafa, Nadine Tahsin Bek, Rouzaina Lazkani, Ghizoan Al Safdy, Suzan Najm Aldeen, and Nadine Khoury.
Context & significance
Rasha Sharbatji directs this 2023 Syrian production, a family-and-power drama in a genre lane long popular across Levantine television, where inherited wealth and generational grudges provide the fuel for season-length storylines rather than a single case to solve.
Where & how to watch
You can find "Born Into Wealth" on K-Time with Persian dubbing already in place; a Persian subtitle option is not currently available for this title. Reading about the series here requires no account, but watching it does, and K-Time's Farsi-first design makes navigating and following the story straightforward for Persian-speaking viewers.