All the men from the neighborhood want to marry the beautiful Temma. Her father promises everyone who owes him money that they will marry his daughter. When he gets exposed, the grooms demand their money. While Temma loves a young man who works in a confectionery shop, so her father tries to get rid of him.
Everybody in the alley wants to marry the sweet young lady T’ema. Her father has borrowed money from many people and in return promised every one of them to marry his daughter. Te’ma loves Hassouna the pastry-cook. Yet another groom appears, a madhouse nurse, who promised to pay the entire debt to marry T’ema. In cooperation with the nurse, the father decides to get rid of Hassouna, and carry out a plot to put him in the madhouse. The wedding night, Hassouna escapes from the madhouse, reveals the wicked plot and marries T’ema.