Salama owns a nightclub and is married to the dancer, Samira. He hides the truth about his work from his daughter Manal, who lives in Alexandria. Manal meets Alaa who works for the UN and they agree to marry. When Alaa finds out what Salama does for a living, his father disapproves their marriage.

"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,

In the slaughterhouse neighborhood lives the teacher Umm Naima and her daughter, the educated girl who graduated from the Faculty of Law, Naima, who serves the people of the neighborhood with all her effort. Officer Ahmed comes to uncover the drug trafficking gang in which the teacher Zaki Qudra is involved, who uses camels to hide the drugs.

A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.