Employee Abdel Hamid's joy of his daughter's engagement is overshadowed by financial strain, societal class divides, and common Egyptian family struggles when her fiance proposes.

The events revolve around a number of social problems through the employee Abdel Hamid, whose feelings of happiness and anxiety are mixed when a young man proposes to marry his daughter, as the events are exposed to the father's bearing of the costs of his daughter's marriage, the difference in social differences between the classes of society, and the problems of Egyptian families.