When a terrorist group kidnaps Fakhr Al-Din's son, Fakhr heads to their headquarters and stabs the leader as he goes out with his son and they embark on a journey back to Egypt. When the son shows clear abhorrence of his father, Fakhr recounts his story and how he got involved with terrorists.

A flashback reveals Fakhr's beginning as a humble lawyer who has a relationship with the wealthy Sherine. She insists that he has to find a better job to improve his living conditions, especially after his uncle refuses to give him his inheritance. She gets him a job at a prestigious law firm.

As Fakhr is assigned Samir Al-Abd's case, he visits him at his villa where Samir shows his ugly side. At court, Fakhr's conscience awakens and instead of defending Samir, he condemns him. Samir vows revenge. In the present, Fakhr and his son continue to walk the blazing desert.

Hazem Shokry, Fakhr's boss, berates him and gets him disbarred. Sherine refuses to talk to Fakhr after the incident. Fakhr and his lawyer friends form an association to defend the poor, with Fakhr preparing the arguments and the lawyers using them in court.

Fakhr meets Hussein who recounts to him his struggles in Cairo. Fakhr breaks down when he learns that Sherine got engaged. The association wins its first case.

Fakhr escalates the case and declares war on the corrupt businessmen, which gets him kidnapped in light of his friend's attempts to find him. Sherine threatens Samir Al-Abd to safely release Fakhr and Fakhr is indeed released. Eissa is brutally murdered in front of his house.

Fakhr travels to Upper Egypt to take shelter at Hussein's family's house. The association submits reports to help the people affected by the earthquake. The Assistant Prosecutor General Omar is assigned Fakhr's case, but he concludes that Fakhr and Eissa simply disappeared.

A flashforward reveals Omar aiming a gun at his father Fakhr. A flashback reveals how Fakhr's friends convince him to travel abroad using Eissa's acceptance letter to study for his Master's degree abroad. At the airport, Fakhr is shocked to see Samir Al-Abd who knows everything about Fakhr's plans.

In France, Fakhr lives in students' dorms and his poor French language gets the professor to threaten to cancel his scholarship if he doesn't choose a topic for his thesis. Fakhr crosses paths with a Moroccan girl who helps him with his French.

Fakhr gets nervous when he sees Sherine at college as they have a small talk about her life and husband. Later that night, a terrorist attack takes place in France, and all the Arabs become suspects. Some are arrested, including Fakhr. Sherine tries to use her husband's authority to get Fakhr out.

A grieving Sherine visits Fakhr and tells him her father passed away. Kenza goes to Fakhr's and gets jealous when she finds Sherine. Before Sherine travels to Egypt, Fakhr asks her to mention him to his aunt and friends. Sherine returns to Belgium. It turns out Samir hasn't forgotten about Fakhr.

Fakhr and Sherine sleep together, and Sherine soon regrets it and leaves her husband's house to stay at a hotel. Fakhr breaks up with Kenza. Fakhr goes to Sherine at the hotel and asks her why she left him back in Egypt. Fakhr asks his friend to get him out of Belgium.

Sherine asks her husband for a divorce and he tries to reassure her. She discovers she's pregnant with Fakhr's baby and she wants an abortion. As she starts hemorrhaging, Fakhr takes her to the hospital. When her husband learns about her and Fakhr, he threatens to kill the baby once it's born.

Sherine enters a psychiatric clinic for treatment. She gives birth to her baby and dies. Adham allows Fakhr to take the baby whom he names Omar. A flashforward follows Fakhr and Omar's attempts to escape the terrorists as they bond together for the first time in their lives.

Fakhr tells Omar about his mother but alters minor details. A flashback reveals what happened when Fakhr took his baby and left him at his friend's house as he returned to Egypt to see his aunt and friends, but he was saddened to learn they still struggled with life. He returned to Belgium.

Fakhr's friend, Beheiry, finds him a job as an accountant for a livestock company in an African country. When Fakhr excels at work, he is transferred to the farm which turns out to be a center for military training for terrorist groups. Beheiry and Fakhr's son soon join him.

The terrorists find Omar and Fakhr, as Omar snipes at them and Fakhr receives a bullet. A flashback shows Fakhr's first day at the training camp, as the leader tells him he can go back to work at the company if he wants. Beheiry tells Fakhr the real reason he left Belgium; it was all for his wife.

As Fakhr recalls how he has been wronged, he decides to join the terrorist group. To encourage him to bomb the Egyptian embassy, Hussein claims that Samir Al-Abd is there, and Fakhr hesitates for a moment because he left Egypt in the first place to stop the bloodshed, now he will bomb an embassy?

When Hussein is seen in front of the bombed embassy, news spread that he is the culprit and the terrorist group decides to burn their training camp and relocate to Afghanistan. A flashforward reveals that the group is still after Fakhr and Omar as Omar tries to wake his injured father up.

Fakhr arrives in Afghanistan and starts training new recruits. The Chinese leader doubts Fakhr's loyalty, and Fakhr's trainer asks him why it is that he doesn't share the same beliefs as everyone else. Hussein approves of the group's decision to ally with the Taliban.

Fakhr returns to Al-Qaeda and mocks Hussein when he learns he is the new leader of Jihad. Fakhr meets Hend who tries to convince him that at heart, he is a just lawyer, not a paid killer. He releases her when he learns she is to be executed. An assassination attempt targets Fakhr.

The group tries to recruit Fakhr for their next major operation in Kandahar, but he changes his mind and tells them he wants out of the operation and the group. They approve. He shaves his beard, changes his clothes, and gets ready to leave Afghanistan with Hend.

Fakhr prepares to return to Egypt, but he heads to Sudan first to see his son and tell Umm Yasser (Yasser's mother) that he will leave Omar with her for a while until he makes arrangements for their life in Egypt. In Egypt, Fakhr is required to provide a record of the years he spent abroad.

Fakhr Al-Din's uncle wants his daughter Laila to return home with him, but she refuses and Fakhr quarrels with his uncle. Fakhr starts to work on a cab and heads to the village to kill his uncle for his injustice and cruelty.

Nasser gives Fakhr a file with the documents prosecutor Omar included before he left office, and Fakhr gives it to Hend. Hend uses the documents for her interview with Adham who has become a prominent diplomat. Fakhr vows revenge on all the people who wronged him and kills the first on the list.

Fakhr vows revenge on Adham, and Hend tries to persuade him not to do it. When Adham sees Fakhr outside his house, he asks Hend about him. Later that night, Fakhr attacks Adham in his car.

Fakhr takes Adham to an isolated area where Adham badmouths Sherine, and Fakhr kills him in retaliation. Hend confronts him about Adham's death and accuses him of using her to effect his revenge plan. Omar blames his father for murdering Adham.

Nasser quarrels with Fakhr and tells him that he turned into a heartless murderer and accuses him of murdering his own uncle and Adham. Fakhr's attempt to assassinate Samir Al-Abd is doomed to failure, and Samir vows revenge on Fakhr in ways beyond his imagination.

Hussein regains consciousness and gives orders for Fakhr to be brought alive. Fakhr and Omar advance in the desert, and the members of the terrorist group find them, but one of them murders his colleague, allowing for Fakhr to escape. Hend grows sympathetic to Fakhr.

Samir Al-Abd tortures Fakhr and tries to kill him, but Hend saves Fakhr and helps him kill his rival. Fakhr tells his aunt that he will travel abroad, but Hussein has other plans for Fakhr as he attacks him. After a clash, they kill one another.