After his daughter, Nada, excels in high school and it's time for her to join faculty, Sharaf Fath El-Bab accompanies Nada to enroll her in a student hostel.
The company where Sharaf works dispenses a number of workers and the expelled workers file an appeal to get their positions back.
Shebl El-Essawi offers Sharaf to smuggle merchandise from the company's storehouse in exchange for 2 million pounds, but Sharaf strongly disagrees and yells at the man.
After consideration, Sharaf Fath El-Bab accepts El-Essawi's offer and they plot together for the embezzlement. Sharaf moves to Alexandria.
After he receives the money, Sharaf asks Sayed Khorda to make him a customized cash locker to keep the money in. However, the theft is discovered and Sharaf is being investigated.
Sharaf Fath El-Bab is arrested on charges of embezzlement. After his wife Souad learns about his agreement with El-Essawi, she asks for a divorce.
El-Essawi is summoned by the prosecutors for investigation. Sharaf denies all charges and insists that he has always been an honorable man. Souad leaves Matrouh and decides to work in Alexandria.
The verdict of the court condemns Sharaf and he is sentenced for 15-years imprisonment. Sharaf's children are shaken up by the news, and Sharaf himself goes mad.
Sharaf has a heart attack and he is transferred to the prison hospital. Madiha collaborates with the police to acquit Sharaf.
Madiha plots to get closer to El-Essawi to beguile him into admitting the theft. Sharaf's appeal to the court is rejected. Souad refuses that Sharaf acquaint her with the location of the money.
Islam is looking for a job to be able to support his family in his father's absence, and Souad insists on not knowing the location of the money.
Souad plants a wire in El-Essawi's car. Meanwhile, Sharaf tells his wife that he will admit to the crime and asks for her forgiveness.
Sharaf decides to inform the doctor that he will confess. El-Essawi and the company's head are caught in the act with the stolen money.
The court exonerates Sharaf Fath El-Bab, and upon his release, he is awarded the ideal employee.
The Matrouh governorate honors Sharaf and he is generously awarded. Meanwhile, Sayed Khorda sees Sharaf on TV and he remembers their conversation regarding the cash locker.
Now that the conditions are favourable, Islam and his sweetheart get engaged. Sayed's intentions to meet Sharaf are thwarted as the former is arrested.
Sharaf Fath El-Bab reproaches his daughter for returning home late. unaware that he has other serious matters to attend to: Sayed Khorda.
Sharaf's children entreat him to move to the new apartment. Sayed eventually manages to meet Sharaf, and the latter throws him out.
Sayed Khorda is arrested again, and he approaches Sharaf to get him out of prison, which Sharaf does.
Sharaf Fath El-Bab and Madiha get closer, and Sharaf communicates to her that he strongly admires her, especially after she stood by him. Meanwhile, El-Essawi expresses desire to meet Sharaf.
Sharaf asks his lawyer to drop the case against El-Essawi, in which he asks him for compensation. Sharaf gets a new apartment in Alexandria.
Sayed Khorda meets Sharaf's wife and children, and he stirs up their suspicions regarding their father's fortune. Meanwhile, Sharaf sells the tank (the cash-locker).
Sharaf and Madiha get closer and he even proposes to her. El-Essawi tries to bargain with Sharaf or else he will admit to their foul partnership.
Things get complicated when Souad learns about Sharaf's intention to have a second wife.
Abd El-Rahman harbours suspicions about his father's money, and Sharaf quarrels with Sayed who incited suspicion in his children's minds.
After hearing his father secretly talking to Madiha, Abd El-Rahman urges his mother to return and give it another shot, but it is Sharaf who rejects the idea.
Sayed informs the police of Sharaf's embezzlement, but they cannot condemn Sharaf because they cannot find the tank. Souad tells her children that their father isn't the honourable man they think he is.
Sharaf resumes his wedding preparations, meanwhile, Sayed meets Sharaf's children and tells them that what their mother told them bears truth; their father is involved in a robbery.
As they confront their father, he defends himself saying that if it weren't for them, he wouldn't have done this disgraceful act. He then takes them to the apartment where he hides the money.
Madiha reports Sharaf's crime to the police and he is re-arrested. El-Essawi plots to have Madiha murdered. Sharaf's kids hide the money from their father. Sharaf goes mad.