Age line

The events revolve around a young man named Sherif Alawi, who works as a library employee. He goes to meet one of the library's clients in one of the extremist areas in Cairo. He is stabbed by two criminals who rob him and throw him in the desert, but his body resists death for two days.
During two days of struggle with death, the young man's memories crumble before his eyes, as the tape of his life passes before his eyes, and this is what the novel presents in the second section called "Falling Memories", as the facts of his life flow in his mind according to an order starting from the oldest to the newest, repeating the same tape. A group of Bedouins rescue Sherif Alawi and throw him in front of a hospital, and he is saved. This is what the events of the third section of the novel show. After surviving death, Sherif Alawi's life changes completely. The experience of his meeting with death changes everything inside him, so his habits change. And his paths of thought and desires.
Sherif Alawi decides to abandon his marriage project, and begins a new journey within himself that reveals to him another path in life that he knew nothing about throughout his previous life.