On New Year's Eve, a taxi driver tries to raise money necessary for his mother-in-law surgery who takes care of his only mentally handicapped son. On the same night, a repentant prostitute tries to make money to fix her house . When they meet, they witness a night full of unforgettable events.
Abbas invents candy claiming that it strengthens the body and cures diseases, and people rush to buy it, which makes him rich enough to marry Nazira, but that angers nurse Rayisa who loves Abbas and makes her inform the police of poisoning cases from eating the candy invented by Abbas.
Captain Rateb falls seriously ill. Tawfiq, the port worker, offers to let him pass a bag of drugs through customs in exchange for a large sum of money. He agrees to secure his children's future, but regrets it and throws the bag into the sea. Gang members kidnap him and he is surprised to find out that his friend Nazih is the leader of the gang. Rateb manages to escape, and Nazih threatens to kill his three children after kidnapping them if he does not return the bag to him.
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.
After failing to find stable work in Cairo, Hassanein joins a group of beggars and unwittingly becomes involved with a corrupt businessman who suspects him of being a police informant.
(Wedad) is a dancer in her aunt's cafe in Naja Hammadi, and once the prince (Yusuf), known for his corruption and injustice, arrives at his palace in Naja Hammadi, and sees Widad and asks her to dance for him at a private party, and tries to rape her but she succeeds in running away from him, and she tries to take revenge with the help of officer (Hassan).
When Hamdy publishes an investigative report condemning the owner of a textile company and accusing him of embezzlement and bribery, the owner tries to clear his name by getting the factory workers and Hamdy to change their testimony.
It is impossible to live between Doria and her diplomatic husband, Medhat, who asks him for a divorce, but he refuses. She is forced to go to court and file a divorce. Doria falls into the maze of the courts and is exposed to a series of problems and obstacles that undermine her dignity. Things get complicated when the husband comes with false witnesses testifying against her in secret. She loses her case after more than four years.
A girl (Suheir Ramzi) tells her friends that she lives in an upscale neighborhood and her father is a high rank in the government while she lives a poor life. She comes up with a rumor that a famous tennis player had fallen in love with her, and the tennis player (Nour Al-Sharif) finds out and plays along.
The two friends, Adel and Sharif, reside in one apartment, and Sharif falls in love with Enas and his exchange of feelings is the same, to ask her to marry her cousin Darwish, who suffers from mental problems, so that Darwish requires him to marry Salwa his friend Adel first for a week as a condition to complete the marriage, and events escalate.
A happy relationship developed between Hoda [Naglaa Fathy] and Ahmed [Mahmoud Yassine]. Ahmed was planning to meet with her parents to ask for her hand, then suddenly went abroad to get his doctorate. Hoda's father [Ibrahim Saafan] got into a severe financial crisis and died, leaving Hoda in great pain. She felt better when she heard Ahmed was returning, but his plane crashed while Hoda was waiting to meet him at the airport. Her friend Dolat [Soheir El-Bably] tried to get her to accept treatment at a home for women, but she would not stay there; she went on a partying binge in Lebanon instead. Then Hoda heard Ahmed had not died, so she wrote him a letter about her situation. Ahmed came to see her, but she overdosed on sleeping pills and killed herself the following day.
The great lawyer Mamdouh neglects his cases because of gambling, and after the insistence of his wife straightens his case, spending his nights at home playing with her, and over the course of days the wife learns the secrets of the game. The picture turns, becomes a gambling player and neglects the affairs of the house
The mechanic (Abbas) loves the poor girl (Fatima), and proposes to her and her father agrees at the beginning of the matter, but soon he changes his mind and forces her to marry a wealthy old man. (Fatima) and her family reside in a hotel preparing for marriage, and (Abbas) tries to kidnap (Fatima), but the daughter of the rich sees him, and she admires him and asks to become her personal guard, and he agrees until he becomes close to (Fatima). The wedding ring is stolen and the mother suspects Abbas, who is trying to prove his innocence.