In ancient Nineveh, King Ashurbanipal’s library preserves the Epic of Gilgamesh, linking the fates of three people across time.
In 1840 London, Arthur, born in poverty, uses his sharp memory to escape hardship and discovers a book about Nineveh that sparks his curiosity.
In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl, faces hearing loss and a race against time as ISIS threatens her homeland and her grandmother seeks to baptize her.
In 2018 London, Zaleekah, a hydrologist, escapes her troubled past on a houseboat, finding new purpose in a book about her homeland just as she contemplates ending her life.
Their lives converge through the enduring legacy of Nineveh.
