A purposeful constructive comedy that portrays the suffering of a big family. The suffering is because of its meager means for living which obliges the elder brother to leave school to earn the living for his mother and 7 brothers and sisters till they grow, finish their studies and get married. Then he finds out that he is now in the fifth decade of his age, and that he has lost much, especially a miserable love story which kept suffering for 15 years then died away after several failures.
Assi, the main character of this work, loves Laila and promises to marry her. But when he starts calculating his circumstances, as usual, he realizes that he is unable to fulfill his promise and he cannot make a good husband to her. So, he tells her his going back on his word while her eyes are filled with sad tears.

A complex network of different social and behavioral relationships is the exciting background which binds together the distinct characters in various fields of interesting and electrifying conflict. The love of "Al-Sham" is the perfume scented in the hearts of all the lovers. But there are such people who prevent the perfumed air of "Al-Sham" from reaching those loving hearts.
Several unique characters portray several intimate human relationships which bring us face to face with the flagrant conflict imposed on these characters. It is the conflict between the beautiful world of love with the refined human values inherent in it on one hand, and the world of money and business which makes money the idol which to be worshipped first of all on the other.