Then most of the story takes place in prison, where he discovers a world of corruption, bribery, and types of human rights violations.
The novel expresses how the economic situation plays the most important role in obtaining justice and rights.
Although he is a criminal for self-defense only, he admits that he killed a tourist during a looting campaign after he was subjected to severe torture and threats at the hands of the police that they would assault his sister if he did not confess.
The novel narrates the experiences of Sharaf in the cell, if he turns from the military ward to the royal ward, where he meets another main character of the novel, Dr. Ramzi Boutros Nassif, who was accused by his colleagues because he tried to exposes the injustice, persecution, corruption and exploitation practiced by multinational corporations from paying bribes and testing medicines on dissatisfied citizens.
Then Dr. “Ramzy” presents a play in the cell at the celebration of the brides of the 1973 war, aimed at letting the prisoners know that Egypt has reached this state of economic stagnation as a result of Egypt's alliance with Israel and the West, which led to an escalation of oppression, injustice and corruption.