Great tragedies make great poets, that's how the Emirati poet Al-Majidi Bin Zaher recounts his life story, starting with the death of his father and how his older brother took care of them. He also narrates his encounter with Al-Ghanim. Salma grows upset about her fiancé Seif''s absence.
After losing his merchandise in the sea, Seif returns to the village, and Al-Majidi offers to help him with the wedding preparations. The people of the village assume that Al-Majidi was possessed by a fairy, and that's how he got his eloquence and articulacy. Dima grows impressed by him.
Afra suggests for her brother Al-Majidi to marry Dima, but being a nomadic wanderer, he fears their marriage will do her no justice and torment her.
Al-Majidi travels with his friend Bin Habel to the city of Al Ain to meet Abu Hamid. Dima is surprised when her long-absent cousin, Nasser, returns, and it is revealed that she had a relationship with him.
Al-Majidi tells Bin Habel that he loves Dima, and as the two men return to their village, Afra communicates to Dima Al-Majidi's wish to marry her. Seif starts trading in Portuguese-made weapons.
Dima gets irritated when Al-Majidi tries to talk to her in private, and Afra assures her he only wanted to discuss their marriage. To everyone's shock, Thabia asks Afra to introduce her as Al-Majidi's bride.
Al-Majidi refuses to propose to Dima because she's already engaged to her cousin, even if he's far away, and he and Bin Habel travel to Jumeirah in search of a job. Seif tells a friend of his that he doesn't plan on returning home or marrying Salma.
Al-Majidi bids his family farewell and travels with his daughter and Bin Habel. He starts a new life as a fisherman and busies himself with building a new house.
Obaid, a highwayman, proposes to Salma. Awad, Al-Ghanim's cousin, asks for Dima's hand in marriage. Similarly, Bin Habel proposes to Thabia.
As Salma rejects Obaid, he vows revenge and scandalizes her and her family, urging her father to leave the village and stay at Mubarak's. The recent scandal disheartens Seif from marrying Salma. Bin Habel marries Thabia.
Mubarak's wife tries to convince Salma to marry her husband Mubarak so they would have children, but Salma refuses. Al-Ghanim accepts to wed his sister Dima to Al-Majidi.
Al-Majidi is in for an unpleasant surprise when Dima's cousin, Nasser, returns, making their engagement inconceivable.
When a huge tax is imposed on the fishermen, Al-Majidi and Mas'oud leave the village. Dima and her brother learn that Nasser was married, and he has only returned when his wife passed away.
Bin Habel becomes filthy rich after marrying Thabia. Salma asks her father to allow her to recite poetry. Meanwhile, the poet of the village, Al-Atiq, invites Al-Majidi for a poetry-recital competition.
Al-Ghanim agrees to take Al-Atiq to Al-Majidi to have a poetry competition, and if Al-Majidi wins, he gets all of Al-Atiq's camels. Salma tries to get her aunt Afra and her husband to help coax her father to approve of her wish to recite poetry.
Al-Majidi refuses to succumb to his daughter's wish out of fear. He tells Mas'oud and his sister that he's back to seeing the fairy he used to see in the past. Al-Ghanim takes Al-Atiq to Al-Majidi.
Al-Majidi meets Al-Atiq. He is shocked when Seif breaks off his engagement with Salma in the aftermath of the recent scandal.
Al-Majidi defeats Al-Atiq. Upon learning that Nasser broke up with Dima, Al-Majidi renews his wish to wed her. Thabia tries to persuade Bin Habel to hire Al-Majidi.
Dima rejects Al-Majidi. Salma accepts to wed Al-Atiq's son. Thabia disparages her husband, reminding him that she is his breadwinner.
Salma marries Khamis, and he is still upset about Al-Majidi's satirical poetry making fun of him. Dima accepts to marry Al-Majidi, and he is shocked when his nephew tells him that his father killed Seif's father.
Bin Habel wants to divorce Thabia, and Al-Majidi tries to dissuade him. The two men go on a fishing trip for reflection. As Salma's husband quarrels with her over a poem she recited and kicks her out, his father berates him.
As the two men return from their trip, Al-Majidi learns what happened to his daughter and Bin Habel decides to divorce Thabia.
Al-Majidi advises his daughter to forgive her husband and return to his house. As Al-Majidi gets a step closer to marrying his sweetheart Dima, her brother Al-Ghanim passes away, leaving them in utter devastation.
Al-Ghanim's cousins want Dima to leave the village with them now that her brother is dead, and when Al-Majidi tells them she's engaged to him, they ask him to go to the village and propose to her family there. Al-Majidi sells his sister's jewelry and Khamis buys it at an insignificant price.
Khamis's father blames him for taking advantage of Al-Majidi's adversity and urges him to return the gold jewelry. Bin Habel advises Al-Majidi to travel and propose to Dima.
Bin Habel divorces Thabia. Afra passes away, and Al-Majidi is grief-stricken; he walks around speaking of graves and death.
Khamis's father urges him to write down Al-Majidi's poetry to preserve it. Seif returns and stays with his uncle following Afra's death. Bin Habel travels to check up on Thabia.
Al-Majidi learns that Khamis plagiarizes his poems with slight changes to pass them off as his own. Khamis presents a challenge, promising to divorce Salma and give her half of his properties if her father manages to accommodate his visitors and host them well.
Salma wins the bet, and Khamis divorces her and gives her half of his properties. Al-Majidi tells his daughter that he could sense Khamis's foul play and deceit the first time he saw him. Al-Majidi passes away, leaving his loved ones to mourn his death.