There is a dark streak in the life of bookseller AJ Fikri. His wife has died, the bookstore is about to burn down, and his most valuable book - a rare edition of Poe's Tamerlane - has been stolen. Fikri withdraws more and more into himself, shutting himself off from those who care about him. Even books no longer bring him joy... But everything will change when Fikri discovers a mysterious stranger in his store. Soon he will look at the world differently, and the world will know a completely different Fikri.