Fathia runs a small restaurant for the mine workers, and her daughter helps her, who has no one to support her but her mother and her lover, the teacher Saadoun. Magdy, a young man from the capital, comes to the town to work as a mine supervisor. He discovers the town and the injustice done to it and its people, and begins his work in the mine. He learns that Saadoun is involved in many works in the mine, and even benefits directly from him.