The events of the series take place in the first half of the twentieth century through the family of Hajj Yunus al-Baqri, whose son, Ali, the struggling young man, lives with him, and Safiya lives with his daughters and their evil husbands. Yunus suffers from poverty and what the occupation does.
A young woman suffering from torment and cruelty after the death of her mother as a result of the treatment of her father's wife and after her father's death, a friend takes care of her father but his wife treated her as a maid.
Wajih heads to Alexandria and lives in one of the apartments there, despite the owner’s objection at first because he is single. Then engineer Anwar, who is going through special circumstances, joins him in the residence.
Abdul Qader lives a quiet and peaceful life with his family. His daughter Madiha marries Adel, who travels to work in an Arab country. His son Shukri falls in love with Rawya, but he opposes the marriage and pressures him to marry his cousin. Rawya decides to take revenge on Shukri and his father,...
Attia al-Jabalawi, a man obsessed with ownership, imposes strict control on his family, whether his sister is a benefactor who tried to escape from the house to marry the one she loves, but she soon returns after his death, or Samia his daughter who prevented him from going to school from her early...
Fayza returns to the country after the death of her husband Juma, so the mayor tries to control her, to seize her money. He asks her to stay in his house, and tries to get close to her, so his wife finds out about the matter, and leaves him the house. Her husband's brothers try to get close to her...
As a freedom fighter carries out an operation against the English occupation, the English military ruler discovers that an army officer is aiding and abetting him. He arrests a group of civilians and threatens to kill them one by one if the officer doesn't divulge the freedom fighter's location.
