The merchant Khalil raises his children, and he is cruel to his son Khaled because of his constant recklessness and his failure to study or work with him, while his daughter Laila is in love with their neighbor Saeed.
Khaled thinks about leaving home after a quarrel with his father. His mother prevents him from stealing his father’s money. Khalil refuses to have his eldest son Ibrahim join the popular resistance.
Khaled decides to travel to Beirut without his father’s knowledge. Saeed formally proposes marriage to Laila, but her father refuses, so she decides to travel with him and get married without her family’s knowledge. Ibrahim is martyred among the heroes of the popular resistance.
Omar gets closer to his university classmate Zainab and admires her. Khalil decides to raise a little foundling he found at the door of his factory and names him Ibrahim. Laila gets cancer after giving birth and Saeed marrying another woman.
Saeed bargains with Omar to convince his father to mediate for him to become an ambassador to a European country in exchange for divorcing his second wife and returning to Laila. Khalil tries to convince his son Tahseen to search for a suitable wife, and Omar proposes marriage to Elham.
Laila dies before her father can forgive her. Tahseen quarrels with his father over giving Omar money so he can marry Elham, who decides to raise Laila's children after her marriage.
Khalil decides to make Tahseen manager of his factory after him. Khalil asks Omar to stay with his wife and his sister’s children at his house, and Omar complains to his friend Salah about Elham's aloofness from him and her caring about the children rather than him.
Khalil decides to reward Elham for raising Laila’s children and transfers ownership of the house to her, but things get worse between her and Omar and she leaves the house. Omar regrets abandoning Zainab, and Tahseen marries Heba.
Zainab's relationship with Omar is renewed despite Elham's return home. The latter finds out and makes Omar choose between staying with her because of her pregnancy or divorce. Omar quarrels with Tahseen because of the latter's desire to sell the factory.
Elham gives birth to her baby girl in the hospital. Salah is upset by Zainab’s renewed relationship with Omar due to his love for her. Omar’s health condition deteriorates, and he dies. Khalil rages at Tahseen for selling the factory.
Quarrels arise between Tahseen and Elham after Khalil’s death, and Tahseen forces her to give up any property that Khalil left her in his will in exchange for Laila’s children staying with her. Years pass and the children grow up and go to university.
Saeed returns and asks to see his children, but his son Marwan treats him inappropriately. Ahmed proposes to Laila, Elham’s daughter. Elham is shocked when a decision is issued to demolish the house. Omar’s son demands from his uncle Tahseen that his inheritance from his father be returned to him.
Marwan tells Elham that he wants to propose marriage to Salah's daughter, and Ibrahim falls for Tahseen's daughter, Wafaa.
Tahseen's son embezzles some money from his father, as the latter did when he was young. Elham is sad to leave the house, and the grandson Omar asks his cousin Buthaina to marry him.
Abdo proposes marriage to Wafaa, but she refuses. On the night of Elham’s daughter’s wedding, her groom is injured in a car accident.
The young man Khalil parnters with Saeed without the knowledge of his father, Tahseen. The latter rejects Ibrahim’s proposal to marry Wafaa because he is a bastard, and everyone is surprised when Khaled returns from abroad.
Tahseen forces Wafaa to resign from her job, so she leaves the house and lives in Elham’s house. Khaled files a case against his brother Tahseen for misappropriating his father’s estate. Tahseen is paralyzed because of what Khalil and Saeed did to the company.