Beshay -- a man cured of leprosy -- has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots and his father, who longer before had promised to go visit him but then had disappeared. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he sets out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross an Egypt very far from the pyramids in his quest for a family, a place to belong, a little humanity...
