Based on a novella by Naguib Mahfouz with the same name. This movie try to analyse the great changes in the modern Egypt life after (AL-Infitah) President Anwar El Sadat's economic policies. Zaatr (Nour El-Sherif) is a small thief turn to be one of the powerful business men in Port Said, and after the fear and respect he pays to the decent policman Mohamed (Ezzat El Alaili) he decide to marry his niece Siham (Soad Hosny).