A children's game-song was the inspiration for this short, nightmarish surrealist novel, which is her most experimental. Hamida and Hamido are twins, although they seem sometimes to switch identities and genders, in a circle in which time and memory constantly change directions and life and death, childhood and age lose their meaning. There are allusions to genital mutilation, rape, honor killings, domestic slavery and military and police violence. The two siblings seem to exist at various times in history and in a way to represent all women and all men in Egypt. The writing is very powerful.