Germany 1997, as Dr. Mahmoud Noureddine accompanies his colleague Olga, he witnesses the massacre of Deir El-Bahari in Luxor. Mahmoud returns to Luxor after feeling his father’s presence as he asks him to return; he finds poor economic conditions after the incident. The servant Mina receives him.
As Mahmoud receives his nephews, Sameh asks him to sell the house of his father, Sheikh Nour. Mahmoud remembers his father while he is sitting in his office asking him to write a book on Luxor, so Mahmoud decides to write his father’s biography.
As Nour's father refuses that he studies at Al-Azhar, Sheikh Ahmed tries to persuade him. As Nour falls into an open pharaonic cemetery above the hill, everyone goes out to search for him and take him out. Years later, Nour becomes a young man and goes to the Mawlid with Boussiri.
Boussiri stays up late at the dancers' house. Sayed El Zogabi meets the mayor of the West. Awais leaves his daughter Ruqayya and travels to Ismailia for forced service in the British camps. As Nour escapes with his donkey to study at Al-Azhar, two thieves try to attack him on his way.
As Nour arrives in Cairo to study at Al-Azhar and lives in the Al-Sa`ida Corridor, a clash takes place between the Sa`idah and the sailors because Nour accidentally sits with them to take the lesson.
As Shawqi and Nour live in a room far from the hallway problems, he works in a library in Al-Azhar after studying and sends letters to his father and Sheikh El Tayeb. Mahmoud refuses to sell the land, and Sameh revolts against him. Nour is arrested in the demonstrations against the British.
As Nour gets out of prison, he meets Boussiri, who comes from Luxor, and tells him about his trade in camels between Egypt and Sudan. Nour returns to Luxor after the deterioration of his father's health. Rafiqa tries to use a fortune teller to bring her closer to Noureddin.
As Nour goes with Boussiri to the Mawlid, he meets Sayed El Zogabi who threatens him. They compete in a game of logging and pole, and Nour wins. Rafiqa gives Boussiri 20 pounds of gold to sit with Nour.
As Nour is sad for not being able to return to Al-Azhar, Boussiri tries to convince him to go to Rafiqa. Father Benjamin offers Nour a job as a teacher in Qena. Nour returns to Al-Azhar after harvesting the crop and Rafiqa travels to try to meet him.
Nour buys coffee and tea from the merchant Abdul Rahim in Al-Azhar and sells it to a merchant in Qena. As Rafiqa returns to Luxor disappointed, she decides to return to dancing to forget Nour who likes Attiyat, Abdul Rahim's daughter.
As Nour tries to distance himself from Attiyat and focus on his studies, his attachment to her is much stronger. After he goes to see her, he decides to get engaged to Attiyat. Nour travels to Sudan with Boussiri in a deal to transfer camels.
Attiyat tries to prevent Nour from traveling to Sudan, but he refuses because of the difficulty of the trip. Nour and Boussiri travel to Upper Egypt and get on the boat to Sudan and buy camels. Nour knows that the previous convoy of Boussiri was attacked by the Hambata road bandits.
As Nour and Boussiri take their journey back from Sudan, they pass the Darb Al-Arbaeen, which is a rugged area, and a terrible dust storm takes place for several hours. As Nour finds Boussiri bound and the camels are stolen from him, he goes and returns everything back.
As Nour returns to Cairo, he's devastated after he knows that Attiyat has died; Sheikh El Tayeb appears and asks him to get through his crisis and learn about religion. As Nour becomes renowned, he returns to Luxor and he feels lonely, especially with Boussiri's continuous travel.
As Mustafa asks Nour to marry Ruqayya, Nour asks for a time-out so that he can get a job and build his own house. Benjamin offers Nour to work as a teacher in Qena. As Nour marries Ruqayya, Rafiqa is devastated with grief.
Nour travels with Ruqayya to Qena and takes over his work at the Coptic school. Ruqayya gives birth to her first child. Nour and Benjamin launch a fundraising campaign to build a secondary school in Luxor. Nour becomes a marriage officiant for Luxor. Sayed El Zogabi wants to marry Rafiqa.
As Rafiqa refuses to marry Sayed, she tries to follow Nour and Ruqayya sees her. As Rafiqa goes to meet Nour, he warns her of God’s punishment, and she goes out to repent; Nour asks Sayed to marry Rafiqa.
As Rafiqa closes the dance house and marries Sayed, her stepfather Rikabi leaves her and goes to Tanta. Jalila marries Boussiri and travels with him to Sudan. As Sayed's wives protest the presence of Rafiqa, she tries to contain the situation.
Nour collects the signatures of the townspeople to authorize Saad Zaghloul to travel to demand the rights of the people. The police take all the authorizations and threaten Nour and his companions. As a new military commander is appointed in Luxor, bloody confrontations occur between the two parties.
As Nour and Benjamin watch the English camp, they break into it and seize the weapons, and return with a captured soldier. As Sayed decides to join the resistance with Nour, Rafiqa decides to go with him.
Nour and his men attack the train after it stops and seize the weapons. Rafiqa manages the affairs of the house after Sayed and the men go on their war against the British. After the delegate of Lord Allenby is kidnapped, the British launch a massive campaign of arrests.
Nour meets the General and asks him to release the arrested, otherwise the prisoners will be killed. As bloody clashes take place between the two sides, Nour and his men win; the General uses heavy weapons in the clash.
Nour and the men escape from one of the exits of the mountain and leave the prisoners; Constable Khalaf manages to arrest them. Nour finds Priest Benjamin in prison. As Saad Zaghloul returns from exile, all detainees are released.
Hasnaa, Mahmoud's niece, tells him that she agrees with him on not selling the house. Sheikh El Tayeb dies. Nour returns to his work as a teacher and a marriage officiant. Ruqayya tells Nour that Aziza is in a wrong relationship. Nour is surprised that Aziza looks exactly like Attiyat.
Nour discovers that Mahrous, Sheikh Younes' son, is one of those who deceived Aziza and asks him to marry her; Younes rejects the marriage. Monofy tries to kill his daughter Aziza after learning of her sin; Nour intervenes, saves her, and convinces Younes to agree.
Mahmoud's friends gather in Sheikh Nour's house and decide to form a social association for people’s affairs. In 1942, Sayed objects to the British threat to the King. Nour asks his cousin Mohamed to let his son Diab go to complete his studies.
Rayya, Jalila, and a large number of the people of the village die after the spread of the malaria epidemic; Nour tries to provide medicine in various ways. Nour goes to the West and gives Sayed a set of medicines. Famine and food shortages spread.
Sheikh Nour's son, Ibrahim, suffers from the epidemic and dies on the same day his son Mahmoud is born. Mahmoud tries to provide a job for Sameh so that he does not sell the house of Sheikh Nour. Salib follows the medical case of Laila, the daughter of Sayed, who suffers from kidney failure.
Mahmoud enters the school and joins Hassan, the son of Constable Khalaf. Nour collects signatures against the demolition of Sheikh Abu El Hajjaj's mosque. Nour's son, Saad, travels to Palestine to fight against the Zionists. The Arab armies lose in the Palestine War and the 1952 Revolution erupts.
Nour asks Sayed to let his daughter, Laila, attend the university. Rafiqa wishes that Mahmoud will marry Laila. Mahmoud and Laila go to the university. Nour refuses to officiate the marriage of a young woman to an old man. A decision is issued to demolish the old cemeteries and El Hajjajia's Mosque.
Constable Khalaf asks Nour to marry his son Hassan to Laila. Mahmoud meets Diab on the train after he became a doctor. As the mosque is excluded from the demolition, the government removes the square and the old cemeteries.
Diab refuses to attend the transfer of graves and asks to sell his share of the land and the house; his mother, Ratiba, objects to him and kicks him out. Sayed refuses to marry his daughter to Hassan. Nour tells Sayed that Khalaf is the one who sent them the medicines at the time of the epidemic
Nour asks Diab to reconcile with his mother. Hassan's psychological condition worsens due to Sayed's refusal to let him marry Laila. Hassan and Laila get engaged despite Mahmoud's love for Laila. Nour convinces Fahmy to marry his daughter Teresa to Salib.
As Laila's condition deteriorates, Dr. Salib looks for a donor; Teresa's tests match with Laila and Teresa donates her kidney to her. As Sheikh Nour's health condition worsens, all the villagers come to him. Sheikh El Tayeb appears to Nour before he dies. The kidney transplant for Laila succeeds.