Set in old Cairo, Hassouna (Hamdy Gheith) is a mean thug who collects money from people for protection. He prosecutes Ashour El Nagy's (Ezzat El Alaily) family, who transform from wealth to poverty. Hassouna forces Ashour to divorce his wife and leave the neighborhood, and then tries to marry her.
Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema.
Naiema tries to break away and leave all her troubling circumstances behind, so she takes the train to Alexandria, where she meets a widow with her son. When the woman dies, Naiema is left reeling when she finds herself left with the child and some important documents.
The events of the playhole story in Istanbul 1995 revolve around Bahloul, a young man who always fails to study. His neighbor, who lives with him, loves him as the dancer (jewel). The owner of the property loves him.
Osama becomes impotent after a car accident. When he grows distant with his fiancée Salwa, she gets close to the poor singer, Nader, whom she lies to and pretends to be just as poor. As they team up for work, she meets Osama at a party and tries to use Nader to make him jealous.
Zaki is a poor person who works as a public transport agent.His family treats him with contempt. He tries to evacuate his apartment by force. When a serial killer strikes, the victims descriptions as applying to Zaki, who is arrested by the police. Despite proving his innocence, people escape from...
When Ahmed witnesses the teacher Abu Jabal brutally beating his father to death, he leaves the neighborhood and devotes himself to learning karate to take revenge on him. He returns to the neighborhood and meets the beautiful widow Badriya who sells drinks on the corner of the neighborhood and...
Mahmoud clashes with Othman, who refuses to allow anyone to work except on the boats he monopolizes. He also rejects Mahmoud's request to marry his daughter, Shamiya, and burns his rival's boat and marries his daughter to someone else.
