Set in the suburbs of Cairo in the late 1930s, the story follows a middle-class Egyptian family grappling with the hardships of life after the death of their father, their sole breadwinner. The mother and her four children—three brothers and their sister, Nefisah—struggle to avoid slipping into poverty. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.

Omar Sharif
as Hassanein

Sanaa Gamil
as Nefisah

Farid Shawqy
as Hassan

Kamal Hussein
as Hussein

Amina Rizk
as The Mother

Salah Mansour
as The Grocer's Son

Amaal Farid
as Bahiya

Abdel Khaleq Saleh
as

Hamed Morsi
as

Mohamed Hamdy
as