After her mother dies, the little girl Hayna lives with her father and her pregnant and cruel stepmother in the countryside. Hayna goes out every morning to herd sheep and has a friend who sometimes goes with her. Hayna's stepmother decides to send her to a rich family so that they can raise her.
Naima orders Zahra to cut Hayna's hair who starts crying and wants to go home; Naima's husband asks her to treat Naima well and take her to school. As Naima's children want to play with Hayna, their mother forbids them.
Samad quarrels with his wife because she hasn't sent Hayna to school. As Hayna tries to escape from the house, Zahra catches her. When Saeed and his wife go to Samad to find Hayna, they try to meet him in court, while Ali wants to go after Saeed to the city, but his wife is stopping him.
As Hayna tears down the living room and locks herself in the room, Naima tries to open the door and tells her husband that she is a criminal. Fatima and Saeed are still in court waiting for Samad to come. Samad takes Hayna back to her father.
Hayna grows up into a beautiful young woman whom everyone in the market admires, even Naima's son who gets jealous. When Hayna's sister gives birth, Hayna asks Naima to let her visit her. Ali's son grows up and becomes a young man.
As Hayna asks El Ghali to marry her, he is stalling her with frivolous talk and then promises to marry her despite her feeling that she is just a maid. As Mohamed works with a thieving gang, he has a girlfriend called Bibiche, but he wants to leave Morocco and travel to Europe.
When Hayna tells El Ghali that she is pregnant, he tells her that he will not be able to marry her because his parents won't approve of this marriage, so Zahra takes her to a woman who gives her a drink for abortion. Mohamed wants to learn to swim because he will travel illegally to Spain by sea.
Hayna refuses to abort the baby and decides to inform Naima that she is pregnant with her son's baby. After El Ghali asks Hayna to get rid of the baby, he tells his sister about it, who in turn tells her mother. Naima takes Hayna to a woman to abort her, but Hanya starts bleeding.
Naima brings Hayna to the hospital after she has a miscarriage; she gives Hayna money and asks her not to return home. Hayna leaves the hospital in a poor condition and with no money after refusing to take Naima's money.
As Hayna discovers that the woman who has kept her in the house is running a prostitution ring, she tries to escape, but a man working there locks her up. As El Ghali steals money from his mother and decides to leave the house, Naima has a heart attack.
Hayna becomes a prostitute against her will after the woman locks her in the house. She gets to know a simple and kind man who gets attached to her. Hayna also begins to get along with the girls and befriends them.
As Hayna wonders how long she will remain locked up, she thinks about her sister. Hayna asks the man who met her to go to Abdel Samad in court and tell him where she is, but he gets scared and refuses. Hayna and two girls try to burn down the house so that they can escape, but their plan fails.
As the police come to the brothel in which Hayna is staying, they investigate her and her friend, but they release them. Hayna and her friend take their two sons and go to live in the house of the blind Hajj in the countryside, where Hayna works in embroidery, but a man named Karim tries to harass her.
Karim's wife goes to Hayna to quarrel with her, as she tells her that Hayna wants to steal her husband, even though she was her friend in the past. As Hajj Ali finds out, he goes to Karim to hit him, which makes the latter send someone to teach him a lesson.
The Hajj dies after he's taken to the hospital, and after attempts by Hayna's friend to pay for the operation. Hayna's sister arrives as she grieves for her father.
When Hayna's friend, Yasmine, is accused of killing the Hajj, Hayna goes to El Ghali's father because he is a judge and he can intervene. El Ghali hugs Hayna when he sees her. Hayna leaves her son with Saeed who hits him, so the child runs away and is beaten by delinquents in the street.
The child Abdel Halim works in theft with homeless children, while Hayna is in the city trying to save her friend from the accusation against her. As Hayna meets El Ghali on her way home, he tells her about his conditions after she left five years ago.
As Abdel Halim returns home, his mother is very happy and she thanks the officer who found him. Hayna and her friend decide to leave Fatima's house and live together.
As Hayna and her friend rent a house, a man from the neighborhood helps them. Hayna decides to cook and sell Moroccan harira, and her friend wishes to open a small restaurant and sing in it. El Gahli goes to Fatima and asks her about Hayna's location.
Hayna and her friend, Asmahan, make harira on a small cart. A maid who was working in El Ghali's house sees Hayna and tells him where she is, as he was looking for her that he decided to leave the house. Hayna's brother quarrels with her after learning that she worked in a brothel.
As El Ghali goes to Hayna in the restaurant, he asks her to marry him; she tells him that she agrees on the condition that he accepts her and her son, but he is hesitant because of his family. As Asmahan goes out with the neighbor, Hayna's son, Halim, feels jealous.
As Hayna marries El Ghali and goes to live with him in his parents' house, she gives birth to a girl and a boy. Her first son lives with them and becomes a young man. Asmahan becomes a famous singer, while El Ghali owns a production company, as he is the one who helped her with her singing career.
A man comes to meet Hayna at the company and asks her for money, or he will take her son, who is registered in his name. Hayna seeks help from Asmahan, who in turn quarrels with her husband because he slapped her son.
As Halim gets in a car accident, he asks his stepfather, Omar, to help him so that he won't go to jail. After El Ghali finds out the truth about Youssef, he asks him to stay away from his family. Hayna admits to El Ghali that her son is his son whom she was pregnant with when he left her.
As Hayna gives all her money to the man who's blackmailing her, she tells El Ghali's father the whole story. Someone calls El Ghali's parents and tells them that Ghali was killed in his house. Hayna takes her children to her sister Fatima's house and leaves a message for her before she leaves.
Fatima raises El Ghali Jr., while Hayna takes her other children to their grandfather's house, where they have grown up. Kenza becomes a famous lawyer. As El-Ghali Jr. tries to prove his mother's innocence, he asks Kenza to help him, but she refuses and kicks him out of the office.
As El Ghali Jr. tries to meet his sister Kenza, she refuses despite the intervention of her friend; she also tells her grandmother about it. El Ghali Jr. searches for his mother everywhere until he proves her innocence to everyone.
When Hayna's son, El Ghali Jr., finds out that El Ghali's real killer has died, he is sad because he wants to prove his mother’s innocence. Kenza's grandmother tries to persuade her to accuse her mother of killing El Ghali.
As El Ghali Jr. meets his mother while she is in the hospital, Abdel Samad promises him to open the case again; he discovers that the forensic analysis indicates that El Ghali was intoxicated at the time of the crime. Hayna goes to court, and her daughter is Kenza there.
During Hayna's trial, a witness appears acquitting her of the charge of killing El Ghali, which leaves all present in shock; El Ghali Jr. rejoices. Abdel Samad feels remorse because he believed his wife who claimed that Hayna was the murderer.