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.

Corruption is rampant in the company, which Mehran chairs, which uses his position to embezzle and loot with Zaki, the company's director. Mehran and Zaki bribe the factory officials to declare that the dairy is corrupt.

Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.

Adham a faithful husband still mourning his deceased wife,visited one night by a woman in white revealing her secret love for him since college,and his wife true acts behind his back,but the big revelation was this woman is no longer from the living and its her ghost that paid him a visit.

Iman is the daughter of the businessman Gasser, both Ashraf and Sami are in love with her. Her father agrees to her engagement from Sami. A month before the wedding, she loses her virginity with Sami, and he dies in a car accident. Iman falls apart and Ashraf proposes to her.

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

In the wake of the 25th of January revolution, the authorities ask the Impersonator to take on the identity of the ousted president Mohamed Morsi and a number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders in order to save Egypt from the growing control of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.