The police are tracking activity of robbery and pickpocketing gang led by the professor and his daughter Awatef. Major Salah, who is charged with arresting this gang, suffers from the tyranny of his rich wife, whom he gets rid of by divorce to free himself from her restrictions, but falls in love with Awatef, the pickpocket, and marries her in the hope of revealing the infernal methods for the gang's robberies.