La guerra se cierne sobre el país de las mil y una noches. El músico Yasín ha muerto y nunca llegará a conocer a su hijo. La abuela explica al futuro nieto, aún no nacido, las historias de una tierra legendaria con un futuro incierto.National Award of Childrens and Young Readers Literature War has once again swept from end to end of the country of The Thousand and One Nights. Tons of bombs have fallen relentlessly on Bassora and Baghdad. Yasin, the lute player who narrated ancient legends at festivities, has died in the ruins of a bunker during an attack by the allies and he will never know his son. Grandma Hafida, Yasin’s mother, explains the tales of a legendary land on which fate and the future have turned their backs to the future shadow of her unborn grandchild. NATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG-ADULT LITERATURE