A middle-class family. The son gets a law degree and wants his son to be a lawyer, but the son wants to be a novelist. The son is surrounded by bad friends, so he is led by them into a life of debauchery and slips into the abyss, betrays trust, misappropriates his father's money, and steals his mother's jewelry to satisfy his mistress's demands, which leads to his mother's death.
Mimi Chakib
as زهيرة حلمى
Mohsen Sarhan
as أحمد علوي
Raoheya Khaled
as راوية
Ferdoos Mohamed
as خديجة - والدة أحمد
ثريا حلمي
as ميمي
Fouad Shafiq
as سليمان بك - عشيق زهيرة الغنى
Mansi Fahmy
as علي علوي - والد أحمد
Anwar Wagdi
as محمود الشيمي - صديق أحمد
Abdel Fattah ElQosari
as المعلم دسوقي - القهوجى
Abdel Meguid Shukry
as المحامى عبدالقادر الشرقاوي
Yahya Najati
as مدير مجلة العصر
Mostafa El Gazzar
as القاضي
