Many people mourn the death of the poet Fahad Al Askar, and the cleric expresses his happiness since he disapproved of the poetry Fahad was writing. In a flashback, the teacher Mahmoud finds in the student Fahad a love for poetry and helps him with it.
Fahad becomes angry when he learns that the girl Sabika is being forced to marry the wealthy elderly man Matouq. He writes poetry about girls’ families selling their daughters for money. His father quarrels with him and asks him to leave the town after the cleric denounces him as an infidel.
Alone, Fahad's illness becomes severe, and he is taken to the hospital, where he remembers his life as a child with his father, and how he placed all his writings with his sister without knowing that her husband forced her to burn them, and how he lost his sight in his final days.