因感知不到自身慾望，杜妮亞在學習詩歌與舞蹈的過程中不斷受挫。後來遇到人生導師巴席爾，開啟了一段透過詩歌、音樂、舞蹈探尋狂喜經驗的冒險歷程。靈感取自於埃及禁書《一千零一夜》，以愛情故事之原型，強調自我賦權及女性情慾探索，並批判父權社會中的既有框架與束縛，乃導演所創作的劇情片類型中，最具女性主義意識的作品。

Malak is a star singer who lives with her mother and her daughter, Loula, in her villa after her divorce. She falls in love with an opportunist called Lam'ey, so her daughter sets out to expose him with the help of her lover, a driver called Nasser, and the director, Ezz-ElDin who deeply loves Malak.

After witnessing the murder of his father as a child, Ibrahim is drawn into the criminal underworld of Egypt. While making a name for himself with his best friend Ashri, he finds his high school sweetheart Houria and manages to rekindle their love, but paths intertwine with Abdel Malik Zarzor, the city's crime lord, who is connected somehow to Houria.