This is a fairy tale, a parable, and a satire. The story is about the near future, about the so-called never-before-seen events that begin to happen in New York and the surrounding area, about the love of a genie for an ordinary man, about their offspring remaining on Earth, about the war between dark and light forces that lasted a thousand and one days. Salman Rushdie competes in storytelling with Scheherazade, who was helped by this art to escape death.