On the form of life in Egypt and the features of the country in the period from the last French campaign, through a period of referee, Muhammad Ali and the rise of the rule and even the plague that afflicted the country in 1835. Through the life of a family from the grandfather to the son and grandchildren. The grandfather who was a participant of the resistance against the French campaign. The participation of the protagonist in the Wahhabi war, and his suffering during it, and his suffering from the plague disease that swept the country and the people years after his return, the end of the death of his younger daughter in the last novel, through the measures that the state took to control the situation. The country and the general public are from the circumstances of the country in those periods ... and their way of life ... and the oppression that they passed through among their joys and sorrows