A poor young man lives in a simple room and falls in love with a rich girl, but her father, the property owner, rejects their relationship which complicate matters greatly.

Featuring a tour-de-force performance by sour-faced Abd us-Salim in-Nabulsy as the puffed-up Professor Hamdi, 'the greatest of all scientists, a modern-day Edison, and the overlooked inventor of nasal batteries and youth elixir', whose latest scheme involves projecting the mind beyond the body.