Original: الأخ الكبير
The events take place in the popular neighborhood of Bulaq, where a poor young man tries to face and overcome many challenges in his life
Harby celebrates his birthday with his family, and they also celebrate the New Year. Abeer, Harby's wife, presents him, Harby rejects the idea of his sister Safia’s work with Souad, Farida, who works with her Harbi, is attacked by Karim and asks for help from Harby
Harby saves Farida and beats Karim. Karim reports Harby to the police and Harby gets arrested. Harby's youngest sister, Sabah, falls ill. Harby asks the persecution to question Farida and her friend Zeina, but both girls testify against him.
The police search Harby's house to locate the stolen items as Karim puts the loot in Harby's room in the villa. Farida sees Karim and takes the loot from Harby's room to hide it. She tells Karim that he has to stay away from Harby if he wants to get engaged to her.
When Harby beats Karim in the police station, Karim vows revenge and threatens Harby. Safeya decides to find a job but her fiancé is against it. Farida's father sets a date for Farida and Karim's engagement. The sales rep, Nour, gets robbed.
After Nour is robbed, the store manager wants her to either get an unregistered marriage or write him a promissory note if she doesn't want him to report her to the police. Safeya asks Farida to get Karim to drop the charges against Harby.
Harby is welcomed back into his neighborhood after he is released. Harby fights with Safeya when he learns that she went to Farida. Karim sends thugs to beat Harby. Farida visits Harby and he vows revenge on Karim in front of her.
Harby starts working for Gamal who bought a car for Harby to work on. When Madame Suzy sends Safeya to Farida to deliver her engagement dress, Harby grows mad at Safeya. Karim and Farida get engaged.
Harby fights with Safeya and slaps her. Souna gives Harby money to buy Safeya's trousseau. Karim's uncle asks Madame Suzy about Safeya whom he saw dancing during Farida and Karim's engagement party.
The store manager demands fifty thousand pounds from Nour and makes her choose between marrying him or going to prison. Farida and Karim quarrel over the latter's affairs. Sabah goes missing and the family looks for her.
Harby finds Sabah and chastises her for wandering off. Harby prepares for Safeya's wedding. When Suzy sends Nour to a guy who tries to come onto Nour, Nour breaks a vase on the guy's head.
Nour flees the guy who tries to assault her. Safeya and Saber get married. Farida comes to congratulate Safeya on her marriage.
Karim quarrels with Farida when he learns that she went to Safeya's wedding. Harby gains fame after he saves the officers at a checkpoint from a dangerous terrorist.
Harby's wife gives birth but their newborn daughter is sick and requires the NICU. Madame Suzy drugs Safeya and takes photos of her in a compromising position to threaten her with.
Saber quarrels with Safeya when he notices the change in her demeanor. Suzy threatens Safeya with her photos and Nour with the guy to whom she gave the promissory note.
Saber tells Harby about the change in Safeya's behavior and shares his suspicions that she is hiding something. After Farida's car breaks down, she meets Harby and asks to see his baby daughter, Safeya.
Souna's bakery burns down. Safeya enlists Farida's help with Suzy. Saber and Harby grow worried when they can't find Safeya. When Farida and Safeya confront Suzy, the latter hit Farida on the head as someone gags Safeya.
Saber and Harby look for Safeya in various hospitals and police stations. Sabah sees a dream that shows her siblings in danger. Harby gets an anonymous phone call informing him that his sister is at a brothel. Harby finds Farida in Suzy's house.
Nour helps Harby flee Suzy's trap. Safeya's body is found in Suzy's villa and her father and husband go to identify her. When Suzy is questioned, she accuses Harby of killing Safeya. Farida vanishes.
Saber informs Harby of Safeya's death. The devastated Harby is forced to flee when the police arrive to arrest him for killing his sister.
Karim kidnaps Harby's wife to force Harby to reveal Farida's location. Harby enlists the help of Molkat, his old prison mate. Harby confronts Karim and Farida's father. Karim aims a gun at Harby and Abeer.
Molkat saves Harby and Abeer. Harby gets Hanan to provide information about Zizo, the guy who appears in the compromising video with Safeya.
Sherif advises Suzy to stay with his secretary until Harby is arrested. As the family prepares to buy Safeya, Harby sneaks in to see her one last time.
When the police try to search the house during Safeya's memorial service, Abeer stands up to them. Farida's mother tries to kill herself. Harby and Molkat find Zizo.
Harby takes Zizzo to the cemetery and forces him to confess the truth in front of everyone. Zizzo admits that he never touched Safeya and that Suzy drugged her and had him pose with her unconscious form. Saber shoots Zizzo.
Sabah discovers a dead body among her father's swings. Harby tries to force Zizo to confess to the police. Harby decides to turn himself in after his father gets arrested for Farida's murder.
Harby tries to get his father released and begs the on-call officer to let him go. Abeer asks to see Harby. Harby is imprisoned for 15 days pending investigation.
The officer tries to convince his supervisor that Harby is being framed. Karim sends someone to break Harby out of prison, but he is actually plotting revenge on Harby.
Molkat saves Nour after Sabares tries to rape her. Suzy gets Saber to suspect Safeya's faithfulness. Karim's men kidnap Harby and try to break him out. Harby escapes after a car chase.
Sherif fights with Karim for sabotaging his plan to kill Harby in the hospital. Harby beats Sabares when he learns of his assault on Nour. Abeer loses it when she learns that Harby escaped and that the police are looking for him.
Sabares plots with Karim to bring Harby down in exchange for money. Abeer asks Harby's father to let her get a job to provide for the family. Sabah falls ill.
The police raid Zubaida's house as Karim chases Harby and shoots at him. Harby hides in Sheikh Ibrahim's house. Sabah is put in the ICU. Zeina confesses her love for Karim.
The police searched Sheikh Ibrahim's house for Harby. Saber is upset with Abeer who started looking for a job. Farida's father questions Suzy about Farida's murder.
When Sheikh Ibrahim's brothers show up to kill him for refusing to fulfill a blood feud, Harby saves him. Sherif asks his secretary to monitor Suzy to find out the identity of the big boss who is running everything.
Harby gets Sabares to monitor Ra'fat's villa. Harby confronts Ra'fat and swears to him that he didn't kill Farida. Karim arrives and tries to shoot Harby, but Zeina saves the latter.
Harby visits Sabah at the hospital. Officer Khaled gets Officer Hany to put Harby and Nour's pictures in the newspaper. Suzy turns on Sherif when he opposes the big boss's orders for her to hide in Alexandria.
Sabares tells Sherif about Harby's hiding place. Harby discovers where Suzy is and tries to get her to tell him the truth. Harby escapes when the police arrive.
Sabah is released from the hospital. Harby, Saber, and Nour hide in Soria's place. Harby questions Suzy's maid, So'ad.
Abeer dies after she grows fearful for Harby's father, Abu Regula. Harby goes to see Sharif but Sharif's wife calls security. Suze is murdered in her house.
Harby visits Abeer's grave and discovers that she hid her illness from everyone. When Sherif is questioned, he accuses Harby of killing Suzy.
Karim turns on his uncle Sherif and plots with his secretary to bring him down. Harby is shocked to learn that Nour has left.
Harby looks for Nour. Sherif's secretary, Ola, asks to see Gamal to give him information about Farida's murder. Nour agrees to marry her old manager.
Ola informs Harby that Suzy is the one who killed Farida and that Sherif killed Safeya. Harby gets Molkat to search for Nour and save her from her impending marriage.
Harby and Nour return to Soria's house. Sharif asks about the man who was with Suzy the night Farida and Safeya were killed. Soad tells Karim that Sherif had her draw a map of Harby's place so that he could bury Farida there.
Karim and Zeina agree to abort their baby. Ola is ordered to convince Harby to kill Sherif and then kill Harby herself. Harby goes to kill Sherif.
Karim tells Harby that he is the one who killed Safeya. When Ziad informs the police that Karim kidnapped Harby and Sherif, they arrive to arrest everyone. Karim, Sherif, Al-Shawaf, and Al-Awam are sentenced to death. Harby gets a suspended sentence.
