Casablanca, Lwiyen racks up petty schemes week after week. He owes money to Omar, a corrupt cop who uses quick and brutal methods. Assad, his childhood friend, is a nihilistic drunk who wants to see his native Sahara again.

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.