1. Rice Pudding
1997-12-30
The events begin with Buran's poor family living together in one house. As Shafiq steals a ewe to get milk, Abu Najib (Najib's father) arrests him. Meanwhile, Abu Manal wants to marry Umm Hani (Hani's mother), and Hani wants to marry Manal.
2. Dr. Afif's Return
1997-12-31
Dr. Afif returns, marries Manal, and makes Abu Manal transfer the ownership of the room to him, while Abu Manal marries Umm Hani. As Afif refuses to let Abu Manal come to their room, Manal objects, so he divorces her.
3. Castles of Sand
1998-01-01
Afif marries the daughter of Atef Bey, whose money he is after, but he goes bankrupt, while Manal gets back together with Afif because of her pregnancy. Afif marries Ghazala, whose property he covets, but she gets fired from the casino, so the three women live in the room together.
4. Emergency Landing
1998-01-02
After Mufid sends Badi a visa to work in the Gulf, Badi raises one hundred thousand liras and gets the visa. Elsewhere, Afif makes his wives work as servants. While traveling, Afif's plane makes an emergency landing, and the visa expires.
5. Hello Over
1998-01-03
Buran needs money to have the phone installed, so Afif pays the sum and rents it, then he starts renting out the phone to the people of the area, whereupon Buran has another line installed, so Afif steals it. As Buran has borrowed a large sum of money, Abu Najib detains Badi and Shafiq.
6. Winter
1998-01-04
As a cold winter comes, everyone tries to get warm, but Buran is the only one who has money to buy diesel for the heater. Badi gets burned by the heater, while Shafiq is imprisoned for stealing electricity to turn it on.
7. Men and Women
1998-01-05
Afif marries Hanan and divorces Ghazala after he was beaten by Mahmoud, who wants to marry her. Shafiq and Ghada quarrel because of his excessive jealousy. Also, Zahra quarrels with Badi because of his constant staying up late with his friends.
8. The Investigation
1998-01-06
Afif marries Najla. Badi is fired from the lab because two people asked about him, as they thought they were cops. Shafiq is fired because of Badi. Abu Thomson turns out to be diabetic. Abu Najib arrests Badi. It turns out that those who were asking about Badi are friends of his challenging him in a game of tarneeb.
9. Ali Baba's Cave
1998-01-07
Everyone celebrates Shafiq's promotion at work, and Shafiq hires Abu Thomson as a foreman. Also, Abu Najib curries favor with Shafiq and asks him to have the police station and his house painted, to which he agrees.
10. Out of the List
1998-01-08
Abu Thomson's cousin, Shawkat Bey, asks for his and his family's help to buy votes in the elections because he is out of the list, whereupon Buran makes Abu Thomson run in the elections, so the two quarrel, and Shawkat and Abu Thomson lose in the elections.
11. Their Secret Is in a Trash Can
1998-01-09
Buran and her family start selling cigarettes without a license, and as Abu Najib grows suspicious of the matter, he makes Afif and Abu Tamer inform him of their movements, so Buran makes them their partners, but Abu Najib exposes them and arrests Afif, Shafiq, and Badi.
12. Malaise
1998-01-10
When Badi suffers a malaise, the doctor asks for a lot of x-rays and tests, then he removes the appendix and the spleen, and the doctor refuses to finish the operation until the sum of one hundred thousand liras is paid.
13. Auto Rickshaw
1998-01-11
The family has a serious accident and stays in bed for a long time, so they are unable to pay the rent, whereupon Umm Hani kicks them out and rents out the rooms, so they resort to begging, then Umm Hani agrees to rent the rooms to them again but with a tourist rental contract.
14. Late Epiphany
1998-01-12
As he wants to have children, Abu Thomson divorces Buran and marries Maysa, the daughter of Abu Tamer, while Hani marries Lana, who bears him a boy and a girl, and Buran marries Mamdouh, Zahra's father.
15. Fathers and Mothers
1998-01-13
Maysa treats Abu Thomson badly, while Mamdouh makes Shafiq apologize to Buran as he asked Ghada not to let Buran interfere in their lives. Badi and Zahra are distressed by Mamdouh's treatment of them. As Atef gives money to Afif, he divorces Sally.
