Ahmed Sabe' El Leil (Ahmed Zaki), a young poor farmer, is serving his mandatory military year. For his perfect eye sight and aiming skills he's chosen as a prison Guard. At the prison he sees the political prisoners who are labeled as the nation's enemy. A new batch of prisoners reach the prison, among them is the intellectual old friend from the village, Hussein Wahdan. Through Hussein the young guard discovers that the so called enemies are actually heroic revolutionaries. A portrait of Egypt in the sixties and seventies the movie is an acclaimed masterpiece.
