Rawhiya tries to convince her husband, the monkey trainer Abdel Gawad, to take his son Karim with him to learn his profession, but Abdel Gawad wants his son to have an education, and he is surprised when he and Bunduq are arrested on charges of stealing from someone in the market.
Olfat asks her husband, Officer Abdel Samad, to help the child Karim, while Abdel Gawad refuses to let Bunduq work with him so that he does not steal again. Years pass and Karim grows up and is surprised when Rawhiya seizes his father’s house and kicks him out.
Rawhiya tries to convince Bunduq to get married and open a grocery store with the money from selling the house. Abdel Samad decides to look after Karim while his father is imprisoned, but Karim refuses his help and insists on working as a monkey trainer to support himself.
Bunduq and Rawhiya agree with Sonqor to take out the gold jar from the old house. Karim succeeds in school and decides to join the Police Academy, but his father's imprisonment prevents him from doing so.
Karim insists on applying to the Police Academy. Bunduq is arrested and Abdel Gawad quarrels with him in prison, after which the latter dies and Karim believes that Bunduq and Sonqor killed his father, so he decides to take revenge on them.
Karim enrolls in the Faculty of Commerce, and is forced to work in the circus with Fahim in order to support himself, while Mohamed enrolls in the Police Academy.
After his release from prison, Bunduq asks the thief Tarboush to meet his sister, Rawhiya. Elham likes Karim and tries to communicate with him.
Tarboush agrees with Safaa to work together, and tries to exploit Rawhiya to collect money from the workers, while the police search her house. Mohamed takes Elham to visit Karim at the circus.
Elham's relationship with Karim strengthens at the university. Tarboush proposes to Rawhiya. Karim is surprised by Safaa watching him at the circus and asking him to work with her.
Wafaa warns Safaa of Karim getting close to her and discovering her work, but Safaa decides to marry him.
As Safaa marries Karim, Wafaa tells her about his relationship with Elham, while Karim tries to uncover Tarboush’s manipulation.
Karim asks the lawyer to buy an apartment in his name. Mohamed informs Safaa of his engagement to Elham. Safaa discovers that Karim has withdrawn a large sum of money from her bank account.
Safaa collapses after Karim expels her from the company, and she dies in a car accident, then Wafaa accuses Karim of causing her death.
Abdel Samad asks for Elham's hand in marriage for his son Mohamed, but Karim marries her, and after the wedding takes place, the latter asks Abdel Samad to work with him in the company.
Abdel Samad rejects Karim's proposal to work with him, but the latter convinces him to work in the factory's security department. Bunduq gets out of prison and works with Tarboush. Raouf gets upset about the hiring of Abdel Samad.
Karim tells Abdel Samad that he wants to establish an office to help those in need, while the prosecution questions Tarboush and Bunduq for issuing false travel visas to workers, and Mohamed’s wedding takes place.
Mohamed warns his father, Abdel Samad, against working with Karim, but Abdel Samad is arrested on charges of trafficking in a shipment of invalid food supplies.
Mohamed tries to prove his father's innocence, and asks Elham to help him, but Abdel Samad dies in the prison hospital. Karim confesses to Abdel Samad's wife that he is behind what happened to him, after which he is arrested before Mohamed attempts to kill him.