 Under a thick layer of a repressive patriarchal society, a new generation with a new culture is looking for ways out.Evoking "Arabian Nights", the novel nests stories within stories, where a male Scheherazade, Omar, tells Amal, his Egyptian-American one-and-half-night-stand lover who is about to be deported, the stories that happened to his friends during her one-year imprisonment.Interrupted only by sex, food and short naps, the storytelling examines Egypt’s multilayered conflicts, and the intertwinement of the hope and despair of its youth.