The film embarks on a journey into the world of romantic relationships with their ups and downs and their impact on human lives through a number of different stories, and it presents a new perspective on love that goes beyond traditional concepts and reveals unfamiliar angles.
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
Layla is a volunteer nurse at the red crescent helping the injured in Palestinian war. She falls in love with officer Adel , and during a raid he gets seriously injured and decides to disappear from her life. She gets married to her colleague and later discovers that Adel is in need of a critical surgery.
Under pressure from his father Hassan, Ahmed agrees to marry another to give birth to someone who inherits his wealth. The choice falls on the dreams of the poor girl who counts her sick mother. The father agrees with her to give her a monthly amount of money, provided that the divorce takes place after her birth and that Amal hopes to raise the baby. Over time, love grows between Ahmad and Ahlam.
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.
A girl who is placed by circumstances in corrupt circumstances, learns the craft of pickpocketing, joins a gang that exploits her work, and after a period of narrowing the life of corruption and hate being in this gang
Fahmy is an ardent believer in horoscopes and manages his life according to them. When a fortune-teller convinces him that his life is connected to a Virgo who has a black birthmark, he discovers that the girl in question is Nana, his friend Adel's fiancée.
Enas married for love to Dr. Jalal and gave birth to their child, Hisham. However, she is also affected by her husband’s success, and feels doubts about his relationship with his colleague Laila, so she decides to make his life hell, and makes him doubt his paternity of their son Hisham. Jalal collapses, and falls into the state of his wife’s delirium, and the delirium turns into shock. Nervousness pushes him towards the abyss and he loses his memory.
On a ship heading from Lebanon to Naples in Italy, an unexpected love story happens between a modern young man and a Bedouin girl sailing for the first time with him, and she discovers much of what she has never seen in her closed life.
Safi marries a music teacher, Ahmed, despite her father's objection, but with her grandfather's consent. The father revolts and expels her, so she lives a humble life with Ahmed in his mother's house. At the same time, her brother Ashraf abandons his beloved Nahid after the father refuses their marriage and forbids him money. Nahed is forced to deviate to raise money for her marriage to Ashraf.
In Egypt, an iconic archaeological painting by an Italian artist is stolen, and the abbots deliberately conceal the crime to avoid scandal. This incident reignites an old conflict between Father Maurice and Father Francis, stemming from their differing views on life.
After Samia marries Mahmoud, she finds out that he's cheating on her. She gets divorced and starts a job at a company. Samia begins a new relationship with her manager, Adel. Adel finds out about her past as Mahmoud starts to blackmail her
Two orphaned sisters, one working as a singer (Sabah), and the other working as a dancer (Nadia Jamal), decide to escape from their mother and her husband who takes their money. They go to a famous singer (Farid al-Atrash) to work in his band. He discovers the talent of the singer and falls for her.
The film revolves around a girl who runs away from home because her father objects to her marrying the one she loves. She secretly marries her lover. One day, the husband goes on an archaeological excavation mission, but he is lost in an accident. The wife thinks he has died. After discovering that she is pregnant with her husband, she leaves the child after giving birth in the care of a nurse she trusts based on her aunt's advice. She travels on a trip to Europe, at the same time that the husband returns with memory loss.
Kawther is married to a women's rights advocate who conducts interviews, seminars and articles to talk about women's rights while neglecting her husband and her children completely. Her actions often make her quarrels with her husband. She reads a fictional account of the kingdom of women where women live alone without men and trust in everything and in all roles and roles. , Farid and his friend Yasin are forced to land their plane in an emergency landing in this city.
Dr. Taliba lives a very stable life with his wife, cousin, children and brother Alaa, the university student. He gets to know Nana, the reckless girl who grew up in a decayed family. He feels that Nana brought joy to his dry life.
Shafiq Al-Atr establishes a company to invest money, and smuggles the savings of small depositors abroad, while refusing to return them to them, so that the public prosecutor takes over the investigation. While the majority of depositors surrender to their inevitable fate and wait in silence, five of them refuse to submit and confront Shafiq Al-Atr to recover their money from him at any cost.
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.
