The remaining time is one hour

No voice rises above hypocrisy, this is our tragedy. A close-knit family consisting of the father Hamid Burhan, his wife Saniya Al-Mahdi, and their children: Kawthar, Muhammad, and Munira. They experience the upheavals of Egyptian society starting from 1936 until the end of President Sadat's era. What will happen to them when the head of the family passes away? Will the family collapse due to one member's involvement in a crime and another's bankruptcy, or will the grandmother's efforts to reunite them succeed to save what remains of the family? The rest of the time is an hour. A novel first published in 1982, about a house longing for renewal, and a homeland as well. While officers move for change, the Nasserist father wonders: "Is there a revolution after 1919?."