The Imam has his hands full dealing with the rivalry between his wives and prayers for Divine intercession in favour of elements of the business class to succeed in their schemes only to have more added by his daughter, who deserts her husband on flimsy reasons. The problems of the prayer leader worsen when he loses his house to urban development. Deceived by his in-law with a bogus house loan in return of him to turn his wife's attention away from claiming for her inheritance that his debtor has appropriated he ends up moving into the house of the former with his large family. The Imam of the Corner Mosque recounts the vacillation between religious duty and the heartfelt ambition to make it good at the expense of those close to one whom he wouldn't ever like to hurt.