Sami, Sara, and their mother Waheba prepare the bags to travel to Egypt. When the trio arrives, the aunt prepares Egyptian food for them.
Waheba arranges the apartment she rented and buys some used furniture while her children help her.
Sara encounters, by coincidence, her childhood friend Maria, and she returns at night after being robbed by a taxi driver. Meanwhile, Sami looks for a job in a Yemeni restaurant.
When Sami takes his friend Hassan, whom he met at the restaurant, to his house, Waheba welcomes him, but Sara does not like his presence.
As Saeed suffers from liver cancer and dies during a night at Waheba's house, Waheba discovers that the man's entire family is dead.
Sami welcomes three Yemeni students to his home, and Aziz receives a sad-news call.
Aziz, Hassan, and Sami study, and Sara helps them. When the latter goes to the embassy to have a copy of her university degree so that she could work with it, the embassy refuses.
Fatima sends money to Sara, which overjoys her mother, after which they go to the embassy to have the certificate approved, but they find many difficulties.
Sara goes with Maria and her mother to the wedding, and on the way back, Sara quarrels with her mother. Meanwhile, Sami finds Maria silly.
Sami makes bread, which his mother likes. Waheba decides to rent a room in her house, and her daughter Sara helps her.
Waheba offers Samira a room to rent. Sami bakes and sells pastries, and Hassan manages the project.
Waheba meets Ghazi at the embassy, and the latter spends the night at Waheba's house in Sami and Hassan's room.
The restaurant owner, who sells the pies that Sami makes, likes Waheba, and Hassan proposes to Sara and tells her that he is married but will divorce his wife.
After marrying Samira, Khaled returns to Yemen, and Ghazi sends a package to one of his relatives there.
A girl asks Maria to help her find a parking spot for her car, and a taxi driver complains about Ghazi to the owner of the Yemeni restaurant.
After five hours, Sara returns with her brother and Maria to the house, where they find Waheba, who is nervous that they are being late and fears for them.
Amin, the restaurant owner, asks Hassan and Ghazi to pay for the food, knowing that they are impostors. Meanwhile, the singer, Ahmed Fathi, performs at the opera house and then visits Waheba at her home.
As Waheba helps Captain Shadi by providing him with a small space near the building to exercise, Sami, Sara, and Maria go to exercise with him.
When a young Yemeni man loses a large sum of money, he is hosted by Sami, and Ghazi helps him find the money.
Hatem, a young Egyptian man, partners up with Ghazi in opening a travel agency, and Ghazi forges a passport for a young Egyptian man for a large sum.
Nadia and her Yemeni friends visit Waheba, and each of them tells about her struggles.
Ghazi tells Hassan how he was defrauded. Later on, Waheba is upset because Sara did not invite Hassan to iftar, especially on the first day of Ramadan.
While Waheba teaches English to Yemeni expatriates in her home for a small fee, Sara meets a Yemeni homeless girl at the embassy.
When a young man named Shaker tells Maria that he is her brother, she gets angry and confronts her father about it, and it turns out that Shaker is wrong.
Samira asks her husband to have some tests done for him to ensure that he can have children, and Shadi visits Waheba with his daughter.
Hassan saves Waheba from a thief who tried to rob the house. Waheba asks Maria's father for her hand in marriage for her son Sami, and he agrees, much to Sara's surprise.
Waheba promises Aziz to help him pay the college fees, and Hassan is arrested.
Waheba, her two children, and Samira are hospitalized after an earthquake. Ghazi and Ahmed are arrested for defrauding Yemenis residing in Egypt.
As Salah, the building's owner, admires Waheba, he asks her to marry him, pays the hospital bill, and provides her and her children a new apartment in compensation for what happened.
Hassan celebrates his wedding, Sami agrees with Amin to set the date of his marriage to his daughter, and Ghazi is released from prison.