The only thing Liliane Beaudelaire knows about her parents is that her father left her at an orphanage in France to go search for her mother in Arabia. He never returned. A certain Monsieur Laurent offers her the opportunity to go to Arabia, but there she makes the shocking discovery that he plans to sell her as a slave. Does she dare hope that the forceful, enigmatic Sheik Dawud will help her? And what does he know about her true identity?