Ain El Jawze

Saeed ordered Amin and the men to treat the people of Ain al-Jawza harshly. The child Abis and his family suffer from poverty and hunger. Saeed asks Abu Abis to give up his land to him. The French become stricter with the people of the village after Saeed incites them against them.

Amin informs Sheikh Musa of Saeed’s decision to forcibly seize half of the farmers’ crop, and Mahmoud Abu Abis attacks Amin because of his harassment of his wife. Mahmoud hides in the mountain to escape from Saeed and his men.

Amin asks the village headman to expel Mahmoud's family from the village. Abis escapes from Amin, who tried to catch him. Amin is surprised by Saeed's fear of Musa despite his power, and Musa pledges to protect Abis and his father's land.

Umm Abis asks Mahmoud to marry another woman, while Sheikh Musa seeks to secure Mahmoud's return to the village. Saeed becomes angry after his crop is burned, and Mahmoud is sentenced to death in absentia.

Sheikh Musa takes care of Mahmoud’s family in his absence, and Amin sows doubts in the village that Abis and Mahmoud are the ones who burned Saeed’s crop, and Amin kills one of the resistance men during a clash with a French soldier.

Abis becomes a strong, muscular young man, still grieving the absence of his father. He becomes attached to Nasma, the sister of his friend Nizar, and seeks to join the resistance against them and against Saeed.