To avert disaster, a powerful and secretive jinn master sets out to kill a calamitous child, a boy named Dileel, born under the Serpent-Neck star. However, a young occultist apprentice also seeks the boy on behalf of his master, who believes Dileel must be saved. When both fail in their missions and Dileel is snatched away by an unknown abductor, his father, Fada, must spring into action to mount a rescue mission. Drawn into the cutthroat world of intercity political machinations and a rivalry between jinn masters and occultists, Fada journeys across ancient Arabia, enlisting allies along the way and risking everything to save his son.