Abdo (Mohamed Ramadan) is a thug working in the drug trade after losing his parents, using force to impose royalties on the people of the neighborhood, while Angham (Houria Farghali) is looking to marry him, and the dancer Rabyia (Dina) has an affair with him, and so is his cousin Alyia (Rehab al-Jamal).
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
