Rouh is living in Boulak Al Dakrour, a poor neighborhood. She's broke and tries to make a living by singing in a nightclub. She suffers from the people around her that are attracted by her beauty.
A young man (Ramzi El Desouki) is reckless in his relationships. His boss decides to introduce him to his daughter (Laila Murad) with the intent of getting them to marry.
Inside a prison, a man decides to help five convicts escape in order to help him on a 30-day mission. The mission is to regain control of a nightclub that Shafika has inherited from her late husband and is currently feuding with her husband's son over it. The son would do anything to get Shafika ...
The lives, loves and dreams of a slightly kooky, middle-class Egyptian family in the early 1960s.