Haddad the Egyptian captain returns home after a journey of exile for more than fifty years to search for the remnants of adolescence and face many dramatic lines and people who are different in character in an exciting intertwining of human relations between all
The film is set inside one of Cairo's slums, where a group of outlaws sit on top of the social hierarchy, running a country inside the country, and having control over the majority of the town's poor and helpless locals.