After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.

Omaima is a medical student and an active member of the Students' Union, who is arrested for her political activity and released due to the influence of her father. She gets romantically involved with Hisham, and a colleague tries to discredit her.

A thug kills female students from the girls' school, and it happens that one of the teachers of this school is completely similar to that thug, so the police arrest him, thinking that he’s the thug.

During World War II, a tribal chief travels to Cairo to buy weapons. He asks for Shams Al Zanati's help to protect his oasis from Marshal Bar'i.

Hanafi al'abiha steals a jewelry shop with his partners and hides the bag with his brother Ahmad before they were arrested. His three accomplices escape and kidnap Ahmed's wife Duaa until they recover the bag. Hanafi is temporarily released to lead the Police to the place of his colleagues, and the events follow.

Salma is a TV presenter who accidentally gets involved in the murder of a girl. Unable to move on, she consults a psychiatrist who turns out to be the deceased girl's brother. Will her crime stand in the way of their budding romance?

Three marginal figures who live on the roof overlooking an open-air cinema, strive to find work that would help them to live. Desperate as they are, they decide to rob a small bank branch imitating a foreign film that they watched at the open-air cinema.

Saber, is a wealthy merchant who falls in love with the young Soraya, but his son Sherif disapproves. When Saber marries Soraya ,Sherif leaves his father's house and works in a car repair shop. Soraya seizes the wealth of Saber and then divorces him. Sherif decides to have his revenge from Soraya.

Three sexually-frustrated friends are determined to watch a porno video but have no private place, no VCR, and no TV, so they go on a misadventure in which their group constantly increases, taking on more and more sexually-frustrated people and falling into one mishap after another, all because of the restrictions of society.

A typical day at a nightclub at Al-Haram street is turned upside down when a terrorist decides to blow up the building. A plunge into the lives of a group of people who are drastically different but equally interesting.