A new look at the story of the Sudanese Mahdi, one of the first leaders in the Islamic world to rebel against the establishment and rally the people behind him, inspiring all the military revolt movements that followed. In the late 19th century, Mahdi led a rebellion against the ruling Egyptian Khedive and his British military advisor Gordon Pasha, claiming that "the Prophet had given him a mission in a dream", organized the people and formed his own army. Mahdi's men defeated the British in Khartoum and overthrew the order of the Khedive, who had ruled deep into Africa on behalf of the Ottomans. Nevertheless, the people, who set out believing in religious promises, are unaware of the tragedies they will experience as time passes due to those who seek their own personal power.

Jamal Mahjoub, a British writer of Sudanese origin, tells the story of the Mahdi uprising that began in 1881 in the southernmost lands of the Ottoman Empire, which included Sudan and parts of Ethiopia, from a brand new perspective, through the eyes of people who were tossed around in a brutal geography. At the same time, it sheds light on what is happening today in Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Iraq, Yemen and the entire Islamic geography. In a poetic, sad and brutal language.