The foreign girl Hilda falls for Shafik, a Bedouin young man who lives in a village in the desert. When his uncle Abdel Qader is killed, the villagers accuse Shafik of killing him and he is forced to flee into the desert with the members of a gang that he joins.
On the beaches of Alexandria, Sa'ied meets Mounira when he saves her brother from drowning, and love grows between them. Sa'ied's traitorous friend Selim also falls for Mounira. When Fathy is killed, Sa'ied is accused of killing him and is sentenced to life in prison
