A student vanishes from a girls' school and the walls start giving up their secrets in Underage, the 2026 Egyptian crime drama directed by Yahya Ismail, which folds obsession, jealousy and betrayal into a tightly wound mystery carried by a young female ensemble whose bonds drive every episode forward.
What is Underage about?
At the center of Underage sits the sudden disappearance of a student at a girls' school, an event that cracks open a closed world of friendships, rivalries and family pressure. Whispers of obsession, jealousy and betrayal echo through the corridors, and one girl must fight her way through a maze of lies to uncover what really happened. Each episode runs just over forty minutes and builds toward confrontations that test how far loyalty can stretch before it breaks. The series favors emotional volatility over procedural plotting, staying close to its young characters and the adults around them rather than the wider criminal world.
About the cast
Jassica Hosam El Din, Reem Al-Masry and Jayda Mansour lead a young ensemble that also includes Joudy Masoud, with Ahmed Al Rafeay, Amr Wahba, Samaa Ibrahem and Ahmed Faheem rounding out a cast built to carry both the schoolroom drama and the crime thread of the story.
Context & significance
Underage comes out of Egypt, whose television industry has built a strong export catalogue of family and crime dramas across the Arabic-speaking world over the past several years. Written by Amin Gamal and directed by Yahya Ismail, it ran as a twelve-episode series, and its short episode length keeps pacing tight, which suits a story that leans on emotional escalation more than long-form plotting. Series built this way tend to reward viewers who stay with the cast across a full run rather than dipping into a single episode, since the tension inside the school compounds gradually instead of resolving quickly. Fans of youth-driven mysteries from the same region will find the tone and rhythm familiar.
Watching Underage on Ktime
The series streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers full access to a show built on tone and delivery as much as plot. A free K-Time account login is required to watch; the page itself stays open to read without one. K-Time's Farsi-first design means viewers can browse straight to a series like this without switching interface languages partway through a search.