Zeenat, who everyone calls apple for her beauty, suffers from the domination of her boss Qadriya, who can't have kids despite her ninth marriage to Fouad. Qadriya asks Zeenat's husband Hassan to divorce his wife ,so that Zeenat marries Fouad for nine months and when she gives birth, Qadryia adopts the child.

Kamal is a porter in a hotel who he loves the secretary Dalal. They lie to each other, pretending to be rich, but they discover the truth after they get married. They look for a rich father, till they find a millionaire who accepts them as his son and daughter, without knowing that they're married.

Mohamed is a soldier who finds himself in Gaza after the defeat in the 1967 War. He returns to his native village feeling broken and depressed after witnessing the deaths of his fellow soldiers. He still loves Fatima but her father wants her to marry Abbas who exploits the farmers and eventually rapes her.

The film describes the political and economical corruption in 70s’ Egypt, through the relationship between a powerful man and his wife’s ex-fiance.