"We gain some experience from our mistakes, but is that experience a permanent serum?"

Never, errors are like viruses, they evolve in form until they occur repeatedly. This is what Helmy recently realized, as he watched his son, Karim, make all his crucial decisions, driven by his fears of his mother's failed experiments. As for Alia, her wisdom abandons her, and she lives in late adolescence after the departure of her husband. Even the age of the youngest son goes through all of his father's missteps in his first love story, those missteps that Helmy committed during two long marriages. Truly, how similar the stories are and how different the details are."