The story of two lovers brought together by chance without an appointment, and an incurable illness: muteness and partial deafness. Their communication had a special poetic language, the language of silence. Silence is sometimes more eloquent than a thousand words. It is the silence brimming with meaning, and the apparent meaning here is the aesthetic value of the union of the self with its other half. Without it, life would have no meaning. The lovers get married and live the best years of their lives... before one of them announces his withdrawal to make room for the other to achieve his dream!!
Novelist Maryam Al Tunaiji introduced her novel with a definition in which she says: “It is not merely a poetic narration or emotional messages saturated with feelings and emotions; it is, before that, a sincere human condition, and meanings that may or may not reach the corner of perception. But in both cases, it represents an echo of bodies that have separated, despite their intermingling within the scope of one vessel; hearts that still beat in a routine manner without a sense of the meaning of existence, and souls that still inhabit each other, despite the distances.”