As Rahaf marries Emad behind her family's back, all the family except for her sister Rima disown her. As luck would have it, Emad turns the tables on Rahaf as he prevents her from working, assuming that a woman who abandoned her family for him would easily do worse.
Novelist Emad gets a visit from one of his admirers, Rahaf. But he soon dismisses her visit believing it was a dream. His wife, also called Rahaf, gets jealous as it turns out the said visitor is their flesh-and-blood neighbor.
Upset with her dependant husband, Rahaf pretends to have broken both her hands and her leg in an attempt to get Emad to do the chores. Soon enough, however, Emad gets back to his old irresponsible practices.
When a group of men robs Rahaf, Emad, and their son, Rahaf is shocked that Emad couldn't protect them. Unable to live with his sense of guilt and Rahaf's accusing looks, Emad leaves the house.
When the flame of their love extinguishes, Emad decides to break up with his wife, but his friend Maxim discourages him. However, Emad is shocked when Rahaf expresses her wish to separate from him.
Suffering domestic violence at home, Rahaf is rushed to the hospital when her husband severely beats her. At the hospital, she learns she's pregnant, and her father encourages her to break up with her husband, a notion that Rahaf's mother disapproves.
As Rahaf suffers with Emad's father who has Alzheimer's, she asks him to take his father to a nursing home, the thing that Emad refuses.
As Emad takes his two sons on a hunting trip, the trip goes tragically wrong when his son Gamal receives a bullet and dies.
During her daughter Nora's engagement, Rahaf is arrested for performing illegal abortions, and Emad is shocked by this unpleasant revelation about his wife.
When Rahaf and Emad fail to pay the rent duly, the landlord kicks them out. Rahaf then turns to her aunt, and her husband Emad starts working as an advertising agent.
Emad and Rahaf are a couple who work together in theatrical performances. As Rahaf gets unnerved by her husband's controlling ways, she seizes the chance and goes off-script in a theatrical confrontation, only for the producers to admire her performance.
To help her financially distressed husband, Rahaf works as a teacher. As a taxi driver kidnaps her and attempts to rape her, Rahaf runs away and takes the quilt. When her husband refuses to believe her story, an enraged Rahaf tears apart the quilt, only to find money hidden within.
Emad is eventually convinced by his wife's suggestion that they leave the country, aspiring for financial prosperity. However, Emad gets arrested for joining the Syrian army.
Rahaf goes with Emad to the hospital to support her sister during the latter's pregnancy. As their car breaks down, Rahaf is shocked by a selfish version of Emad.
Emad is upset since all his offspring are daughters. As his mother prompts him to take another wife to get a male heir, Emad dismisses the idea and gets his wife pregnant once more, but she ends up giving birth to two daughters.
As Rahaf's husband starts neglecting her for work, the fact that he is a gynecologist only adds up to her suspicions that he might be cheating on her.
Soon after she marries Emad, Rahaf is shocked by the domineering ways of Emad's parents, a thing that Emad managed to hide prior to their marriage. When it surfaces, however, it also brings disputes into their marriage.
Long ago, Rahaf has gone mute following her father's death, a fact that Emad utilizes to have his name written on all her writings. Later on, Rahaf learns that Emad has faked her medical reports to make sure she doesn't receive treatment.
Rahaf is resentful of Emad always feigning being rich. As Rahaf and Emad run into Emad's boss, Khalil, and his wife, Rahaf invites them over to their house, and Emad resumes his deceitful ways to pose as a wealthy man.
Being jealous of his parrot, Jose, when Rahaf gets attached to it, Emad frees the bird behind his wife's back.
When Rahaf's ex-lover, Akram Belal, sends her a painting, Emad gets madly jealous and accuses Rahaf of lying to him.
Rahaf's father is mad since Rahaf and Emad haven't made their marriage official yet. Emad uses the money Rahaf earns from her job as a flight attendant and he refuses for them to have children. When a pregnant Rahaf gets mad at Emad, he tries to reconcile her, but only for his personal benefit.
Having lived a long period of his life as a blind man, Emad eventually undergoes surgery to regain his vision. Once the surgery is successful and he restores his eyesight, he gives his family the cold shoulder.
As Rahaf and Lilas prepare to meet their husband who's living in Syria and banned from entering Lebanon, shocking facts about their husband gradually unfold.
When Rahaf suspects her husband's fidelity, she spies on his phone, and her suspicions prove right. As she learns he's cheating on her, she contacts him via a different phone number to exact her own brand of vengeance on him.
As Emad and Rahaf get married for the sake of facilitating their travel abroad, their sham marriage soon turns into love.
When a tragic accident befalls Emad and Rahaf, it takes away Rahaf's unborn baby, her uterus, and her sanity. Emad stands by his wife, chiefly out of guilt.
Two friends, Emad and Monther, work as fishermen. As Monther decides to surprise his wife by placing a ring inside a fish, he swaps fish with Emad, and the ring ends up in Rahaf's hand.
When Rahaf gives birth to a baby boy and they add his name to the family register, Rahaf gets mad when she sees the name of Emad's ex-wife, Lama, there. When she prompts her husband to remove Lama's name from the register, Emad acts in defiance and takes Lama back as his wife.
Even though they have been married for forty years now, the spark of love and the ties of familiarity between Rahaf and Emad continue to strengthen as they teach such virtues to their children.