Akoon Aw La (Arabic: أكون أو لا, lit.
In a small village on the outskirts of a city in the 1990s, forty-something woman Amna’s husband dies of a terminal illness.
She decides to continue in his line of work and raises their sons, the benevolent Salem and the wily Aziz.
She Amna also takes in her niece Khadija after the death of her wealthy merchant father, leading Aziz to seduce his cousin for her fortune.
They are foiled, and Aziz is arrested and imprisoned with his accomplice, the mukhtar (village elder) Sheikh Abdul Malik.