Things always end where they begin...that's been the rule since time immemorial! There in the El Alamein desert... Tariq found himself surrounded by a good group of scoundrels... Sheikh Musa, the strong man in his area and his suspicious activity... the forest of black fig trees... and finally that mysterious old woman! Tariq had to serve the term of his assignment, in the midst of a society that bore him nothing but cruelty and hostility! .. Because he is a stranger.. and foreignness is not accepted here...