[1] The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz.

[2] Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father.

Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him.

Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school.

Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path.