those dark things

Author's name: Aya Shoaib

She feels that her life is worthless. Her lover has married another woman, and she is completely unable to confront her father and the grief he has caused her in her life. She lives a fierce struggle between the hunger for love and acceptance, and the fear of rejection and abandonment, which ends in tragedy. Meanwhile, her friend is unable to help her because her mind manipulates her and hides from her the harsh details of an incident she experienced in her childhood. She believes that salvation will only come by reopening the wounds of the past. She searches for the only person who witnessed the childhood trauma they shared together, so they can take a risk in order to heal. However, she discovers that he has his own tragedy, as his lover is watching him, and she will discover things happening around her that will turn her world upside down. From Cairo to Dubai to Riyadh, she will read between the lines and stories to learn that pain is similar regardless of the location, and that reaching rock bottom does not necessarily mean that it is the end. Perhaps there is hope for escaping the grip of the past and the wreckage it has left inside us.