John Theocharis returns to the city of his birth and meets Constantine the poet, Madame Rosa the clairvoyant.
Mr George the philosopher, Gamal the leader, and Mustapha the barber. In what Lawrence Durrell called "that great sprawling jellyfish where Arabs,
Turks, Jews, Copts, Syrians, Armenians, Italians and Greeks are joined and divided by ceremonies, marriages and pacts", he finds a place he both remembers and has forgotten. Producer Piers Plowright