Its events take place in the village of Taiba in central Sudan, Gezira State, and its heroine is a beautiful and educated doctor who holds the threads of the narrative, expressing herself and the main characters in the story. She returns to her village after completing her studies, and makes major changes in the life of the village, and coincidence played a role in her taking the initiative to change. The village is lifted from its slumber within fifteen years, and then she discovers that she has lost her life and her beauty, and that she was loved by everyone, but she remained a spinster. She represents one of a group of six children to whom the school principal predicted brilliance during their primary school period, and through the narration she answers what It happened to them years after the prophecy. One of them was murdered and the other was murdered because of racist tendencies. The history of the murdered man, who descended from a grandfather who was a slave in the past. He dared to propose to the murderer’s sister. The discovery of the secret of the crime in the final chapters gives the novel suspense. One of them dropped out of school and inherited the butcher’s profession. From his father, and he discovered that he was cheating in his slaughtering, and was offering dead animals that had not been slaughtered in a legal manner. Then the climax of the crisis occurred when the doctor met her colleague whom she had left since she was a trainee doctor of excellence, and who was in love with her and had confessed his love to her in a letter thirteen years ago, to discover by chance that he had He lives in the same newly emerging metropolitan neighborhood, after she left the village to live in the capital in order to obtain a medical specialty. Then, leaving the village makes the village collapse and return to what it was, a remote village without lights, after she brought about a spring (change) in it that rarely comes. Because of her activity in the village hospital, He created confidence in its ability to treat the sick, the turnout of the people of neighboring villages, and the establishment of the village market, its expansion and the abundance of activities. The village expanded and took on a greater economic and social dimension, then it collapsed in less than a few months after the doctor (the protagonist of the novel) left the village after her shock and the collapse of her wedding when the police officers arrested her. The groom is arrested accused of murder
Adam rubs his old rust with the blade of a knife. He scratches the space with tremendous instinctive force. After a period of time has passed since the absence of a second person, the open space has become grayer, and different from what Adam imagined. Here he walks alone, but the old noise still haunts him. A mythical being lives under his skin, making him rub his hands and rub them. His eyelids, he wants to see the light hitting the body of the night with the blade of the knife, and the knife does not seem bold when faced with the thickness of the bohemian bellows that strikes it.
Adam declares, the wires extending from under the neck to the edge of the shoulder are swollen, his face appears congested with blood and the red color invades his place. Adam is now thinking about the crow that hovers around his head, crowing with a sound like the horn of an old freight vehicle. He had previously been told that seeing a crow in the belly of the sky is an omen. It was ominous, so his senses trembled and he turned to the notebooks of the past, and questions abounded in his head.
