Hind had left her father's home after his death and her mother's remarriage, and prefers to live with her grandfather Amr and grandmother Salma (Naamat Sami), who hire her maid Jawhara (Kawther Ramzi).
Soon, however, slaves of Nu’man and his father, the Banu Amir sheikh (Abdulaziz Khalil), convert to Islam and are killed with arrows.
Mohamed Metwally summarized it in an article in El Watan News as follows: The film is a love story between a Muslim woman and a polytheist at the dawn of Islam, all from the pen of Naguib Mahfouz.
It tells a complete love story without addressing the actual religious context directly, contrary to the fashion of the period, and herein laid its screenwriter’s downfall as a mass-media figure [thus encouraging his shift to literature].
Mahfouz’s film was an enormous commercial failure, doomed by a poorly attended premiere and a cast relatively devoid of marquee stars.