Decade of the '40s. Egypt is under British occupation. Abd al-Aziz Hamam, a bankrupt landlord from Upper Egypt, is forced to move to Cairo and work as a warehouseman at the automotive club, a building-symbol of the corrupt monarchy that collaborates with the conquerors. There, the cream of the ruling class, the aristocrats, the foreign diplomats, the officials gather. Their leader is the king himself, who plays cards and enjoys himself, and with him his ruthless chief chamberlain, an Egyptian from Nubia, who imposes himself on the servants in the most authoritarian way, trampling on all their rights. Outside the club, the country is in turmoil and the outlaw nationalist and liberation parties begin to make their appearance...
What is the price of revolution and what of submission? Around this question, Aswani builds his polyphonic novel with multiple narrators. A rich, dense novel, full of action, events, and twists, where social conflicts intersect with personal stories and where politics is involved in people's everyday lives.

Aswani returns with the Automotive Club of Egypt to the colorfulness of the narration of Megaro Giakoumian to speak, through the atmosphere and the framework of another era, about today and about the always timely and urgent need for democracy and justice to prevail.