A young girl searches for a suitable job to support herself and her sick mother, and finally gets a modest job as a nurse in a clinic. A love story develops between her and the doctor whose clinic she works in. The doctor deceives her, she makes a mistake with him, and he refuses to marry her.

On the eve of the Israeli attack on Egypt in 1956, Israel declares martial law in all the occupied Arab territories without any previous notice. When the villagers of Kafr Kassem returned home from the fields, they were butchered and killed in what is known today as the massacre of “Kafr Kassem”.