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.

Shaaban works as a photographer in a newspaper, with whom the dangerous criminal Napoleon agrees to take a number of photos to compete with Ibrahim and his gang as they steal a company's treasury in exchange for money to succeed in his mission. Abraham bargains for half the amount he agrees, Napoleon succeeds in rushing him and torturing him to get the money back. Men of his fiancee and the company paid with the two gangs. Shaaban hands his share of the stolen money to the police.

Al-Gharib is a dangerous criminal who only strikes at night. As the police fail to catch him, Al-Gharib befriends a wealthy college student who gets to see a side to the terrifying serial killer that no one else gets to see.

Saber works in the cinema and lives in an old neighborhood, and exchanges love with Warda. His uncle Salem seizes his wealth and turns it into gold bars that he keeps in his home safe. However, his wife has an unfortunate plan for him.

The events revolve around the athletic young man Kamal who loves Sanaa and wants to marry her, but her father refuses because he roots for Kamal's rival team. He tries to marry her to Rafik, who secretly works in smuggling. Kamal tries to reveal his truth to marry Sanaa.

The movie revolves around two friends, Mamdouh and Salah, who get to know Amina and Hanan as they travel by boat. They also meet Yusuf, who is carrying a coffin for one of the deceased to be buried abroad, but in fact there is a jewelry in the coffin that he is trying to smuggle.

Sherif, the lawyer, and his two friends, Raafat, the famous composer, and Sayed, the veterinarian, are shocked, and they decide together to abandon everything related to Noun Al-Niswa, but Elham decides to enter their lives.

Helmi is a rich man who lost all of his money and started looking for a job; and the only one he found is requiring him to get married first.

The son of a wealthy man wants to be a musician but his father, the factory owner, objects and kicks him out. When his father announces a competition for the name of a new soap, his son wins the prize and has enough money to finance the theater of his dreams and he becomes famous for his shows.

Abduljawad is separated from his wife Iglal, and he left her with their children Hashim and Samira. Hussein proposes to Samira, but when Hussein's father insists on meeting Abduljawad, she turns to her brother Hashim, to persuade their father to go and see Igalal who still loves him.

Farid is a student at the College of Veterinary Medicine. He has a love story with Samira, his cousin. Three girls are trying to obtain a marriage contract to guarantee a job outside Egypt, but they can only find Farid. Farid marries the four of them, including the club owner, under the urging of his financial circumstances.

Ismail wants to grab his wife's Turkish money, claiming that he has the children of a former wife who died, and that he can not spend on them, but Ismail does not realize that this little lie has left him in an endless series of lies, Of each lie with a greater lie, and every time the wife deals with him in good faith.

Working class Hassan and the rich Hanafi are rivals for Nawaeim's love. Going to the hospital to be treated for a horrible wedding night stomach pain, Hanafi receives an accidental sex change operation. After months of recuperation, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life as an unattractive, mannish woman named Fifi. She becomes the opposite of Hanafi. Where he was brusque, she is flirtatious.

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris

Shehata works as an accountant in a store that sells birds, arrives to him a letter bearing the news of his acceptance to a new job as an accountant in endowment properties, it happens that a dancer claims that she has a child from the son of the endowment overseer and leaves him for him and everyone knows that there is a child called Helmous, and they don’t know him either a mother or father. The daughter of the head of the endowment takes advantage of this event and claims to be the mother of the child from Shehata.

The events take place in Kuwait in the 1940s before the advent of oil, and the story of a shy love in the conservative society between Mary and Khalifa, and the obstacles they face.

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Abdel Sabour was a thief and a smuggler known as The Beast to the people in one of the villages of upper Egypt; everyone was afraid of him, including the police. He enjoyed the protection of Redwan Pasha, who in turn used him during elections to eliminate his rivals. Officer Raouf Saleh was sent to the village with his wife and son with the assignment of arresting The Beast. However The Beast and his gang worked together from the beginning trying to dispose of the officer and his family in any way possible.

With her husband terminally ill, a wife becomes the target of her husband's friend who wants her money so bad that he kills his friend and proposes to his newly-widowed wife.

A homeless girl after her father dies, lives on the kindness of an old man who checks up on her. He invites her to live as a maid in his house. She starts seducing both him and his son, till the old man marries her and she lives with him and his wife and son.

A gang makes so much money by blackmailing married women and businessmen. after the death of one of their victims in a car accident,the police found one lead that may help them to arrest this gang.

Hussein and Laila are children who pledge to love. Circumstances separate them and they meet after they grow up and their feelings are renewed, but Laila is exposed to an accident that loses her sight, so she decides to sacrifice her love so that Hussein can avoid life with a co-wife.

A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his circumstances and he is distracted by her from his family. He neglects his work and his life is upended. He ends up killing this woman who killed him and betrayed him. Then he immigrates to Sinai, where he lives for a few years. When He returns to his family and finds that the children have grown up and married.

At the door of Al-Hadra prison, three musicians gather in front of the prison, waiting for their friend out of prison, (Amin) who is just heading to an abandoned house to meet his friend (Joseph) the gang leader, and asking him for his right to the crime for which he entered the prison, gives him ten thousand A pound of clothes that he stole from (Nadia), (Youssef) asks him to know the location of the money that (Nadia) stole, and to get closer to her. (Amin) goes with his music colleagues to (Nadia) and asks her to work with her.

(Ameen) The merchant who sees many nightmares in his dream about a young man who accepts him to kill him, which causes him to feel fear for what he owns, and goes to seek advice from a psychiatrist, and one day Ameen is surprised by the young man who always appears in all his nightmares as he applies to a job with him, and discovers Amine that this young man loves (Samia) Amin's daughter, which causes him to address this relationship, refusing to associate with her.

Kamal is a thief who finds a broken watch among his stolen items so he puts it aside. It turns out that the watch contains hypersensitive microfilm about military sites, and he becomes followed by the police and the spies who want the watch.

Basbousa is an orphan girl, who has a love affair with Samir, takes advantage of the admiration of Rafat, the manager of Samir, and asks him to promote her fiancé, so he agrees, which arouses the jealousy of one of his colleagues, and he begins to spread rumors.

Nadia is a reckless girl who is friends with Kamal, Joker and Gina. She meets journalist Ahmed and falls in love with him at first sight. Gina asks Nadya to hide her husband, who is a fugitive from justice. In defense, Nadya stabbed Gina's husband after he attacked her, then Nadya has to prove her innocence.

Yassin is a fame-seeker who makes a deal with the lawyer, Samir, to falsely confess to a famous murder, in the hopes that the media attention will benefit them both, as Samir proves Yassin's innocence at the last moment. But when Yassin is implicated in the crime, Samir has to find the real killer to save him.

Master Farhat falls for the dancer Seham and decides to produce a movie for her. Seham is in love with Shaker and convinces Farhat to have him star opposite her in the movie. Shaker's friend, Saber, enlists his help to find a job, and Shaker introduces Saber to Farhat as an Italian director.

Magdy is an engineer at the High Dam. He travels to Cairo to take some time off with his family. But his wife Dr.Laila, is too busy with her work, which drives him to spend time with his neighbor Elham, taking advantage of her husband's absence, and things develop rapidly

The student Nawal meets the writer Ahmed Sharaf El-Din, who is looking for a new face for a new film he wants to write. She learns to dance, sing and drink. She meets the director Raouf. In the middle of the first experience and her encouragement of Ahmed, the director casts his net on her. Her mother dies, and Nawal lives with Ahmed but refuses to marry him, hoping to become a famous star.

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

The story revolves around the singer (Dalal) who works in a cabaret. Many men fall in love with her, but she prefers the wealthy (Mustafa). She marries him and moves to live with him on his estate. (Mustafa's) mother, who wanted her son to marry his cousin, is shocked. When she is injured in an accident, a doctor comes to treat her and meets Dalal, as he was one of her former clients. The doctor proposes to (Mustafa's) cousin, and (Dalal) refuses this marriage, which will reveal her past. She decides to kill the doctor to preserve her past from her husband's family.

"Ismael" (Ismael Yassin) Wheelsy wants to marry "Fathia" (Shadia) and compete in it (Abdel Moneim Ismail), which is accepted by her father, but "Fathia" love "Ismail" and refuses to marry any other, which leads to her father To the house of her aunt to keep her away from "Ishmael" and avoid any problems that may affect the completion of her marriage (Abdel Moneim Ismail) and when he goes "Ismail" to search for "Fathia" exposed to a serious gang leader, "Jasser" very similar to him and wanted to be arrested, the question is what will happen On that.

Dr. Sami is subjected to harassment and arrogance from his wife, Munira. One of his patients is the singer Nadia, who visits his clinic for treatment. From here, Dr. Sami feels how gentle Nadia is. Dr. Sami's conditions change, and he even becomes preoccupied with Munira. Munira tries to find out the reason for this change, but fails to bring him back home, so she begins to spread rumors and scandals about him.

Poor young man Mahmoud Fathi electrician and loves music and composing, live in the same House orphan girl Delilah who loves him and trading love, in its composition towards renewal and which does not correspond to respond, he discovers that his girlfriend is sick with TB and to cure her needs a large amount so he agrees to sing Method does not satisfy him to provide, the girl decides to sacrifice herself, committing suicide to free him from this situation and to live his art. Captured by a wealthy Lady insists, intellectual Hanim resume career.

Two young men, Ahmed and Mohamed, who live in Port Said, develop feelings for the same girl, Najaf. However, when the Tripartite Aggression reaches Port Said, they abandon life trivialities and join the militants as Najaf joins the Red Crescent; the three unite for a single patriotic cause.

Lawahiz is a dancer and singer in the world of nightclubs. As her father, Master Azab, and her mother are sentenced to prison, she decides to visit them, only for her mother to tell her that Azab is not her real father, and that she's the daughter of another man.

A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.

The rich young man married a wife based on his aunt's desire in the hope that she would see him an heir, but fate paralyzes the wife, and here his aunt pressures him to marry another who is also paralyzed, and he tries again to repeat the experience, so he marries the third and fourth

Hassan is a young man who recently graduated from the Faculty of Commerce. He works with his uncle Amin Bey in a securities office. Hassan loves his cousin Samira and the uncle promises to marry them. However, Qamar, an ugly girl, loves Hassan and decides to marry him. Amin asks Hassan to marry Qamar. Amin deceives people with the intention of spending on his dancing lover.

Wahid and Mansour are friends, working in a drug trafficking gang, but Mansour is charged with murder and is sentenced to imprisonment. Before going to jail, he asks Wahid to watch over his wife, and he leaves his money with him. But Wahid betrays his trust, he spends his money and cheats with his wife.

A naive man Mahrous from Upper Egypt arrives in Cairo meets a fraudster. The fraudster feels that Mahrous has reassured him that he can sell him the famous green threshold square

While they were on their way to the mental hospital, a criminal escapes because of the negligence of the police officer. Afraid of being punished, the police officer decides to make his uncle enter the hospital instead of the criminal.