Mohsen leaves
Damanhur, where his wealthy family live, as he enrols in a Cairo school. He lives a simple life with his three uncles and an aunt who takes care of them after she misses the chance of getting married. However, all the males fall in love with their neighbor Suniyah, a modern girl who plays the piano, but she disappoints them all, as she falls in love with their neighbor Mustafa. Mustafa, a well-off young man, leaves his shop, which he inherited from his father Kafr El Zayat. Next, he comes to Cairo in search of jobs for ten pounds, as Suniyah encourages him to return to his father's shop. Suniyah collides with aunt Zanouba, who dreams of marrying Mustafa and uses magic to win his heart, but she fails. The 1919 erupts for the return of Saad Zagloul and his
comrades who were exiled from their homeland. Mohsen, his uncles and his servants participate in the demonstrations that support the revolution. As the novel begins of them being sick in bed in one room, it ended up in one cell in prison and in one room in a hospital. == Translations ==