The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.
Through the depiction of the typical middle class Egyptian family of Si El Sayyed, the film explores the Egyptian society during the British occupation with its various stereotypes, the morals of the conservative “Eastern” man and women's status in a highly patriarchal social hierarchy.