Season 1 of الوسية premiered on March 27, 1990.

The series is based on the life of Dr. (Khalil Hassan Khalil), a professor of political economy in the era before the 1952 revolution, who belonged to a village in Sharkia Governorate; Where the series follows his constant suffering with poverty and social injustice, at the same time he struggles to be a university professor, to improve his social conditions and achieve his dream.