Starting from the fabled holy city of Ravan, two paths diverge that will
take their respective travelers to the farthest reaches of Parsina. The
black-hearted thief Hakem Rafi comes into possession of the ultimate
power of evil, while the storyteller Jafar al-Sharif and his daughter
Selima begin a longer involuntary journey that will test the limits of
their ingenuity. But first, they must fool the world's greatest wizard
into believing that they, too, are practitioners of the mystic arts.