Jonah is a 17 year old Jew living in Alexandria around 767 A.D., during Arab invasion. He attends an yeshiva, a school for becoming a kabbalist rabbi and befriends a Greek Christian boy. One day Jonah meets an Arab girl, Noura, and falls in love with her. Little does he know that she is one of the caliph favorites. Torn between his love for her and his love for his own life, Jonah runs for his life to the desert where he meets a Christian hermit who trains him to become a hesychast - one who practices the most secret and most powerful Christian mystical technique. Armed with it he can now return where his heart left...
