This is a story of passion, superstition and adventure against the backdrop of the Yugoslavian civil war and the romantic world of rural Jordan. It is also a love story revealing the transitory nature of human passions. Plot and counterplot are inter-wined in the drama of human conflict and relationships.

A young English teenager travels to Jordan to visit his author-journalist uncle (veteran of the Yugoslav tragedy) and finds experiences which catapult him to manhood.

The small village of Anjara, north-west of Amman, becomes the backstage for many emotional adventures and events; a mixture of Middle Eastern superstitious beliefs and real human passions creating stirring conflicts; the essence of human drama. Arab values and customs are in direct conflict with imported western concepts and principles. How these are resolved becomes an engrossing drama in a colourful desert mystery.