Almost twenty years have passed since the thousand and one nights when Scheherazade told her tales. They saved her life and glorified Baghdad throughout the world. But someone again longs for Scheherazade’s death and kidnaps her right from under the nose of the Baghdad Caliph. An ancient prophecy tells him to send a team of sailors on a rescue mission. As they go deeper into the merciless desert, losing camels, provisions, ransom, and becoming increasingly hopeless astray, Scheherazade must deal with the kidnappers on her own. And she again turns to the fairy tale to save her own life...