Mansour El-Hefny’s wealthy family rule an Upper Egyptian island. Some police officers facilite their arms dealing in exchange for information, and corrupt parliament members use their immunity to par-take in their drug trade.
Writin by Farouq Guweda
Starring Soad Hosny, Mahmoud Yassin and Rushdy Abaza.
University student Mohamed works as a driver for the wealthy Abdul Majeed. Mohamed discovers that Noura, Abdel Majeed’s young wife, is cheating on him with Murad, and she asks him to keep the matter secret. Noura's brother Salah aspires to marry Nevin, Abdul Majeed's daughter, but she refuses. She loves Muhammad and agrees to marry him, and the father blesses their relationship. However, Noura succeeds in trapping Muhammad in her trap.
Sharifa is a middle-aged woman whose life is dedicated to managing the textile factory that she inherited from her husband, and looking after her family. But an unpleasant surprise lies waiting when she learns that her daughter is in love with their neighbor who is old enough to be her father.
Mamdouh carries on with his womanizing ways after his marriage. His brother Fathy suffers from the constant preoccupation of his wife Nawal with her work. Mamdouh takes Fathy to a brothel, to take his mind off his problems, but Nawal discovers her husband's infidelity.
The mayor of an Upper Egyptian village has monopoly over beans which harms the simple villagers while getting high profits for the mayor. As one of the villagers stands up to the mayor and rallies the people, they decide to gather money to monopolize beans themselves.
Imad and Kamal work in a company and compete for Mona's love. Kamal travels on a mission to Germany as a result of Emad's plan to facilitate Kamal's travel instead. Bored, Kamal comes back and complains to him Mona and the heart of Imad is suspicious after the return of Kamal from travel.
As Marmar enrolls in the Faculty of Girls, she moves from Beni Suef to Cairo to live with her aunt's family. As her cousin Ahmed falls for her, his father finds them together in her room and insists that Marmar must return home. Marmar's family decides to wed her to the businessman Gadallah.
A young teacher, Mohamed, rejects a student who happens to be the daughter of Awny, the Minister of Interior. As Mohamed starts working as a journalist and joins the Wafd Party, he learns that Awny has documents that condemn its leader. Mohamed tries to get the incrimating evidence.