Qamar al-Zaman is an innocent and naive girl. She leaves her hometown to look for work in Cairo and goes to a friend of her father, but she finds him dead. A neighbor tries to rape her. A young man who works as a magician in an amusement park saves her and takes her to work with him, but she fails to work as a waitress because she is not able to read and write, so she learns through theater toys.
