What would you do if you were walking through the park at dusk one day and a fairy appeared, offering to grant you a wish? Trainee architect by profession, daydreamer by habit, Alex happens to have one ready: the power of instantaneous travel. It's only when he finds himself in Oman on his debut 'flight', and is drawn, by a chance encounter with the kindly scholar Burhan, into the perilous quest for an ancient cloth, that Alex realises there's always...