Hamza works at an iron and steel works, he is also a volunteer with the National Guard. The young man meets a teacher named Fawziyah while she is on a visit to his camp with a group of her students. When a fire takes place in Cairo in 1953 the secret police launch a campaign to arrest national guard volunteers. They surround Hamza’s home and capture his friend Shoukry in addition to all of his other friends who had volunteered for the national guard. Thus Hamza decides to hide at the home of a friend called Badeer. He meets Fawziyah who had volunteered to go back to his house in order to get some of his clothes. Fawziyah succeeds in entering his home and bypassing the police, she also manages to trick her father