Until the age of forty, Ella Rubinstein’s life proceeded peacefully and measuredly. An exemplary housewife, a wonderful mother and a faithful wife, she could not even imagine what acquaintance with the manuscript of an unknown author would bring her. Reading "Sweet Blasphemy", Ella ceases to understand where she is - in a small American town in the twenty-first century or in the thirteenth century in Asia Minor? Is she corresponding with the mysterious author of the novel, or with Shams himself from Tabriz, the famous and mysterious wandering dervish? Love bursts into her heart, completely upending her usual and so dear life...