In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her.

Shehata Effendi is a clerk for a wealthy woman who is in dispute with her husband. Her husband divorced her a third time, so they resort to Shehata to marry her. Then the wealthy wife dies and he inherits her fortune, prompting him to think of marrying his old neighbor Asrar.

Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.

A girl develops a psychological complex after witnessing her mother giving birth to her second child, leading her to reject marriage and suffer from nervous breakdowns. During her treatment, she falls in love with her treating physician, but he doesn't reciprocate her feelings openly due to a problem he's had.

Hoda lives among the servants and drivers who consider her family and dreams of her knight in shining armor. Ahmed saves her from drowning, and she thinks of him without seeing him, until one day they meet, they exchange love, and she goes with her maid to Ahmed's house, where she sees a picture of her deceased mother on one of his walls. She is also Hoda's mother. The truth shocks her and she decides to hide it from her lover.

Overnight, the situation changes with Ikram. After she was living a happy life with her husband, Hassouna Bey, she finds herself in the circle of suspicion by discovering her husband's betrayal of her. Her aunt, Sharbat, suggests several ways to help her preserve her marriage. He pushed Hassouna to assume the role of a rich woman, hoping to solve his wife's problem.

Fayrouz Hanem is a minor girl, but at the same time she is the owner of property that she inherited from her late father and mother. She has been appointed as a guardian for her money, and some poor people live in her property, but the guardian wants to evict them for not paying the rent, so Fayrouz sympathizes with them and stands next to them, and they therefore stand up to the guardian who He wants to steal the underage girl's money and steal it from her.

In one of the villages, a love story develops between Fatima and Abdul Karim, but before marrying her, Shahira, the city girl, ensnares him and makes a mistake with him. Faced with this mistake, he decides to marry her and abandon Fatima. Before the wedding date, Shahira runs away with another lover, which shocks Abdul Karim, and he decides to marry Fatima.