Sherif Helmy

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and sexuality. Through diverse characters, the film offers a critical examination of Egyptian society.

The events revolve around Akram, who receives an invitation to attend a masquerade party. He decides to wear police uniforms, which causes him to suffer a crisis as a police officer, while looking for a particular file.

After a clash between a group of demonstrators and the security forces, one of the bodies of this clash is returned to the morgue with seven other bodies. The forensic doctor, Yassin Al-Manstarli, writes his medical report after examining the body and states that the victim was shot at close range, unlike the other bodies and the problems begins when this medical report leaks to the media.

Nadine gets rid of the state of emptiness in which she lives, by meeting a fraudulent young man named Bassem, who offers her the kind of love and attention that she is missing. Nadine Bassem participates in fraud operations through which they get involved in many problems, which puts their love story and other matters at stake.

In the pyramid quil, Radwan returns from America to convince his influential father of a project to remove the residences of the area and build a pharaonic-style city and embark on implementation while his real goal is to explore for oil with American investors whose goal is to demolish the pyramid.

The series depicts the corruption rooted in Egyptian society prior to the revolution, through the portrayal of a shrewd businessman and his connection to important statesmen.

The events of the series revolve in a dramatic framework around the antiquities trade, its relationship with the mafia, and everything related to the world of this trade through the story of Hassan (Amr Saad), an employee of the Antiquities Authority, after discovering the smuggling and counterfeiting of ancient manuscripts.