An Egyptian saga in three books revolving around a battle across generations of a family sworn to protect the people, and what they protect them from: he who watches from the other side of the Nile. Barr al-Dayf is a village that has fallen from the memory of the world, a place everyone agreed to forget, even its own people, who decided at some point to stop having children, racing against time to end their own bloodline. Barr al-Dayf has traditions and rules the likes of which you won’t find anywhere, rules revolving around secrecy and concealment. If you are accepted inside the village, which is rare, you will be puzzled by the metal barriers installed on one side of the streetlamps, preventing light from shining in the direction of the Nile. And if you are crazy enough to sneak behind the backs of the villagers and lurk until after the sun goes down, you will find only empty streets and locked doors. Silence and sorrow are all you will find. Breaking these traditions will lead him back to our world, for he is watching and waiting for us to err. And this is exactly what happens when one of the village’s own people breaks these rules. Now he has spotted us, and soon he will cross to our side to take back what he believes to be his.