Khaled
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
The events revolve around three eras: the Pharaonic era, the Mamluk era, and the first half of the 20th century. The events revolve around corruption and the power of some clerics over the ages to power and false and bad dealings with the people, and how to involve religion in politics in order to obtain positions. That there are clerics deliberately coloring and counterfeiting in this period of time to be the strongest and maintain their positions.
A man who married from the women he loved, yet after marriage somewhere in his heart his old love is still alive and beating, to live in a struggle between both of them.
Mounir
Manal is the lovely young daughter of a grocer in an isolated, run-down Cairo neighborhood town bordering a garbage dump. Both Zaki and Mounir want to marry her. Instead of letting Manal choose, the boys challenge each other to a soccer match in which the winner will gain her hand in marriage.
Nessib (Antonio Banderas) e Ammar (Mark Strong) são líderes de seus povos e após a derrota do segundo para o primeiro, um acordo implicava na entrega dos dois filhos para serem criados pelo inimigo. Criados por Nessib ao lado da filha Princesa Leyla (Freida Pinto), Saleeh (Akin Gazi) e Auda (Tahar Rahim) se tornaram homens. Enquanto um só pensa em retornar para as terras do pai, o outro só quer saber de ler e conhecer cava vez mais coisas. Enquanto isso, uma nova disputa por terras está em curso, tendo em vista que um pequena faixa de terra esconde sob o solo um valioso e cobiçado líquido negro: o petróleo. Para completar, Saleeh tenta fugir das garras de Nessib, mas o plano não saiu como ele imaginava.
Ali
Youssef, a student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, responds to the call of talent and love of drawing against his family's wishes.