People of all faiths share an ancient dream of possessing the land that lies between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea which they hold sacred. In 1956 an Egyptian spy, Ishmael al Mohammed, is determined to gain information which will reclaim the infant state of Israel for the displaced Palestinians, one of which is his mother. While on an espionage mission, he falls passionately in love with a Jewish woman, Rebecca Silverman. He must decide if he will betray the only person he will ever care for or be true to Islam, Egypt, and his family.
A Christian, Danny O'Halloran has always dreamed of attending Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcre and walking the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem, while a pagan donkey goddess named Pales dreams of being worshipped again by the original inhabitants of Canaan, which was renamed Palestine in her honor by the Romans.
Israeli politicians drream of making Israel a nuclear power while Britain and France conspire to regain the Suez Canal, which the President of Egypt nationalized.
Against the backdrop of circumstance leading to the 1956 Suez War between Israel and Egypt a love story which encompasses the forbidden romance of Romeo and Juliet, Delilah's betrayal of Samson, and the treachery of Britain's MI6 double agents unfolds as Ishmael nd Rebecca's story spans three millennia of history.
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