One of the best arabic book I've read so far. The main character, Hamída, has a strange streak in himself. He's a normal guy, who works as a journalist, loves his wife and has a moderate nature until something violent happens around him. Than he reacts in a same way. So now he'se serving a lifetime in a jail, because he'd happened to be a witness of a honour killing and he simply couldn't let it go as managed all the others who were at that moment there too. His behavior and personality works as a magnet and he befriends even the prison's headmaster who brings him woman into the prison and even takes him to the cinema. Reader is definitely sure, that some things are going to happen, must happen, but Hamída is no ordinary man...