Abu al-Wafa, a border guard soldier, offers him a huge bribe in exchange for allowing a shipment of drugs to enter the country, and abu al-Wafa agrees after informing officials, and when receiving the million pounds, Salem is arrested in an ambush, and salem's men and his son Diab press on Abu Al-Wafa to change his statements to exonerate him. Salem, despite his desperate need for money to carry out a pipe transplant for his wife and to take his father hostage.