He did not think of Salma, and she is preparing for her dangerous trip to the harsh Cairo, in order to search for a absent lover: that she will befriend a retired prostitute, and conditions will be forced to work as a chef in a cheap prostitution house. Her absent lover, on the other side, was a victim of a country that violates a foreign occupier and a corrupt elite, and he did not know that he had to return quickly from his absence, not only to save his life, but also to replace Salma from what she had become. A novel that brings us back to the 1940s, to see Egypt as we have not seen before.