As Mukhtar lives in a rented apartment, he finds himself experiencing bizarre incidents that happen in the apartment every day, when he sees the figure of a girl named Ibtisam who looks like Laila, the cousin of his neighbor.
Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are both caught up in their busy routines as their race through the city evolves into a journey of self-discovery that reconnects them to life.
Habib, a hairdresser from the late 1960s who works in his own hair salon in his apartment, is about to break with his usual routine by trying to make his wife happy. Habib usually suffers a lot, but he insists on staying alive.