15 year old Hana has a crush on her 20 year old cousin Farook. However, he leaves to study medicine in Scotland. Her parents force her to marry another cousin, twice her age, a fat abusive chauvinistic brute. Ten years later, she has no children, and sinks into depression. Farook returns to Sanaa to set up an eye clinic next door. She attempts suicide with sleeping pills, but Farook rushes over with his Indian nurse, with a gastric pump and rescues her. During follow up visits, the embers of her teenage love are reignited, and she declares her love to Farook, who learns about Gihad's brutality. She also confides stories about the involvement of her husband, and his brother Hamed, in arms sales, gang rapes and murder for organ harvesting from female medical students. Farook is asked to inspect the body of one such student at the university hospital morgue, and has to testify at the trial of the suspected Kenyan morgue attendant, who had escaped from Nairobi accused of armed robbery there. Farook detects a scar below the lowest rib of Faten, typically seen after nephrectomy. He is warned to keep his nose out of the case by police captain Tahhan, as well as by Gihad and Hamed. He has to choose between heeding their advice and his medical conscience. Farook also suspects that the gang rapes are committed against girls who are first made addicts of cocaine snorting, by some very prominent untouchables from the national security apparatus, and the ruling family. His suspicions are strengthened when the courageous defense lawyer of the Kenyan morgue technician is murdered, together with his wife and three children on a dirt road. Farook's loses his nurse who has to seek an abortion in her native India because Gihad bullies her into sex and gets her pregnant. As Farook begins to respond to Hana's solitude, and her advances, and begins to fall in love with her, obese hypertensive Gihad is hospitalised in the intensive care unit with massive brain hemorrhage. Hana and Farook indulge in forbidden love. But because Gihad's millions are stashed in foreign banks, Hana realizes that she is in mortal danger from Hamed, who feels entitled to the millions of his partner, Gihad, and who stands to inherit all, but only if Hana is dead. She needs to escape from the Land of Sheba before Gihad's impending but unpredictable death. In that patriarchal society, she can only hope to do so with help from a man like Farook, who is beginning to get to know many people who might help the woman he now wants to marry, to fulfill her teenage fantasies.