Summary

An archaeologist goes to Mount Lebanon to excavate antiquities. There, he spots a Bedouin girl and falls madly in love with her. She falls in love with him at first sight, but she is engaged to her cousin. The young Egyptian man tries to propose to her father, but the father refuses, according to tribal traditions. Coincidence brings the two lovers together in Beirut, and the young archaeologist knows that she will be married to his cousin.