In 1918 Damascus, after the downfall of the Ottoman Empire and before the French colonization of the country, six Damascene neighborhoods decide to choose one head to rule over them, only for clashes over the throne to crystalize and extend.
The events of the series take place through ordinary and passing characters (passengers), who are picked up by Abu Janti taxi by chance, so that the hero catches their stories and comments on them and affects or is influenced by them in the context of his daily movement and pension, and in a mold that tends to wit in most of its area, but it approaches tragedy or crying sometimes, conveying the image of reality The real, with critical sarcasm or cynical pain. The work tries to enter the personal worlds of taxi drivers and the worlds of customers, which will not be devoid of the funnyness of the situation, with a satirical comic framework. The work belongs to the type of black comedy, as it presents the problems of society so that it forces you, as a viewer, to oscillate between laughing and crying in the same scene. The series carries new and varied ideas and creates topics that touch the problems and concerns of simple people.
Having spent most of her 20s taking care of her sick mother and her family's household, a sexually repressed woman elopes and has to face the hypocrisies of middle eastern society.
In one of the slums, a group of intertwined stories revolve around residents whose movement may extend outside this neighborhood due to work or study, and their fates intersect with the paths of some characters from other neighborhoods of the city.
The show tells the story of a playwright, Jalal, who holds secular views, and his close friendship with Michel, his childhood friend. Michel initially worked as a lawyer but later transitioned to journalism, founding his own magazine in which he boldly addresses societal issues, drawing significant criticism. Additionally, the narrative explores themes of separating religion from civil and political life through a love story between a man and a woman from different faiths: Jalal (a Muslim) and Hanan (a Christian). Their relationship culminates in a secret marriage, which lasts until Jalal’s sudden passing. Throughout the story, the work focuses on two major issues related to secularism: the demand for a civil personal status law that permits civil marriage, and the call for a secular education system that allows students the freedom to seek their own truths instead of being indoctrinated with a predetermined "absolute truth." It also tackles issues of political and social corruption.
A drama series that tells the story of the coastal environment during the era of the French mandate in Syria, especially the environment of fishermen in light of the exploitation and greed of some people and the bitter struggle of others against the French occupier.