In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.
Officer Hussein dies in a terrorist operation, and his friend, broadcaster Sameh, takes care of raising his son Tamer, who saw his parents killed in front of him, until a family member takes him in.
Al-Sakhawi, the businessman, seeks to buy all the houses and shops in the popular neighborhood where Zainab and Tayel, who is returning from a business trip abroad, live. Both of them refuse to sell to Al-Sakhawi, so Al-Sakhawi tries to make Zainab believe that he loves her and will marry her, and...