Zakaria (Ziad) a horse-racing betting addict. Unemployed and penniless, he is kicked out from his house by his wife and forced to choose a poor-man's motel called 'Nazl As-Surour'.

To his bad luck, on the first night, the motel is raided by two co-workers, Abbas and Fahed, who, armed with machine guns and dynamite, take the residents hostage. Abbas and Fahed were fired from their work because they were pushing co-workers to go on strike and they chose to take a "revolutionary" way to change by threatening to blow up the motel unless the "authorities" respond to their demands of better conditions for workers. The first decision of Abbas and Fahed, who declare themselves a "revolutionary council", is that they will shoot one resident every hour until their demands are met and they give the residents a choice between joining the "revolution" or face death (ya thawra ya mawt).

Eventually, the residents convince Fahed that by marrying Sawsan, the daughter of the motel's owner, he could inherit a fortune which he can use to have more chance at success with his revolution. Fahed thinks it through and agrees. Amid the wedding ceremony, Abbas and Fahed come to their revolutionary senses and refuse to go along and proceed to bomb the building, however, the resident have all fled except for Zakaria who has no place to go. Abbas and Fahed do not bother killing Zakaria, but Zakaria insists that Fahed should at least slap him on the face so that people will say that this revolution did something. But Fahed has already given up and was unable to do such a thing.