Telling the story of an albino teenager, the "enemy of the sun", an Egyptian Nubian, who embarks on a magical and beautiful journey with his family across Egypt's governorates.
Despite Sherif's success in high school with grades that qualify him to enter the Faculty of Engineering, which his parents dream he would attend, he aspires to own his own project of making paper chairs.
Within the framework of the social drama, the fish merchant Hamed lives a simple, quiet life with his family, until he finds himself in the middle of bitter conflicts among the big market traders, and he must confront them, otherwise he will perish among the whales.