The novel revolves around the influence of military rule on civil life through a fictional village located on the outskirts of the Delta in Egypt, the army decides to extract some of its lands to establish a military unit next to it, and as a result of the work of resisting the people and their refusal to dispense with their lands, the army isolates the village and its military rule. The writer monitors through an atmosphere of fantasy transformations that occur in the village through the injury of its people with color blindness, as well as impotence and some things that indicate the transformation that affects civilians as a result of the military rule.