The story revolves around Dr. Laila Al-Hilali, who lives with her brother, Saber Al-Hilali, a tour guide and archaeologist and martial arts artist. To receive the reward due to Saber's preoccupation with his work, Laila is subjected to an attempted rape by Fiume.

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.

A dancer asks a politician with whom she once had an affair to use his influence on her behalf.

Hanan works as a secretary for Shawkat, a businessman who trades in weapons. Despite being watched by the police and constant attacks from the journalist Samia, Shawkat steals Hanan from her fiancé, Ahmed, who works in an Arab country. Hanan's attempts to escape and follow her fiancée fail.

The police follow the activity of a robbery and pickpocketing gang led by the professor, and his daughter shares with him emotions at work, and Lieutenant-Colonel Salah, who is in charge of arresting this gang, who suffers from the power of his wealthy wife, who gets rid of her through divorce, is freed from her chains, but falls in love with the emotions of the pickpocket and marries her in the hope of revealing the hellish methods For the gang in thefts.

In the 1940s, the policeman Imam moves to Cairo to work in an area devoted to prostitution. There he falls in love with the prostitute Nusse who works with the bully Jalal without knowing that she is practicing this profession. He is defended by an imam who beats an English soldier who tries to intercept her and assault her. He is tried and dismissed from service, then returns to live in the neighborhood and look for work, and becomes a pimp, a quarrel between him and Jalal al-Fatwa. Each trying to prove his strength and impose his power.

Adel and Salwa love each other and decide to marry, but Adel doesn't have enough money and is reluctant to take this step. Salwa encourages him and reassures her that she will be by his side. They get married but they can't afford to buy an apartment.

Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.

In the fourth story of the epic of Harafish, Samaha Al-Nagy grandson of Ashour al-Nagy decides to marry Mahlabia. But Al-Qalali the bully of the neighborhood wants to marry her. When Samaha and Mahlabia try to escape, the men of Al-Qalali kill Mahlabia and frame Samaha, who flees to Upper Egypt.

Nemat (Lebleba) is a girl searching for her mother who has been away from her for fifteen years and has traveled to Casablanca. Nemat is upset with her father Afifi Bey (Ahmed Mazhar) who does not want to help her, so she decides to return to Egypt to get her mother's inheritance. She meets Ahmed (Hatem Zulfikar) who invites her to dinner. While they are eating, they meet Najaf (Safiya Al-Omari) and Khashaba (Abdel Moneim Madbouly), the show artists, who we discover are related to Ahmed and are a group of swindlers.