Farouk Abdelkhalek

Ibrahim suddenly returns from abroad, to find his wife Safaa married to Ezzat. The couple seize his apartment and savings. Ezzat accuses Ibrahim of insanity in order to lock him up in a mental hospital where he's subjected to all kinds of physical and psychological abuse.

After the defeat of 1948, Mansour Dahshoury, nicknamed the Captain, gets known for his special incomprehensible abilities and magic with women. He wanders around Port Said and repeats the news from the war. The commandant tries to arrest him but he escapes every time.

Three women, a doctor, a lawyer, and a farmer from Upper Egypt, each with a story, are wrongly accused and all sentenced to prison. But they decide to escape so that the peasant woman gives birth to her son outside the prison walls.