Under the hot sun, the Jeddah streets make a scene from an old black-and-white movie: the women dressed like long, dark shadows and the men in their light cotton tunics. Naser's friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can't get away: he's an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash.

Naser's friends have all left town for cooler climes but he can't get away: he's an outsider in Saudi and he needs to hold down his job at the local carwash. A splash of colour arrives in Naser's world when, unexpectedly, a love note is dropped at his feet from a woman whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. Erotic tension runs high but relationships between unmarried men and women are illegal under the and it's not long before their real, but illicit, love must face the hardest test of all.