In the battle-smoke and chaos of Gallipoli, a young New Zealand soldier helps a Turkish doctor fighting to save a boy's life. Then a shell bursts nearby; the blast that should have killed them consigns them both instead to the same military hospital. Mahmoud is a Sufi. He tells David stories. Of arriving in London with a pocketful of dried apricots. Of Majnun, the man mad for love. You are God, we are all gods, Mahmoud tells David; a bond grows between them. A bond so strong that David will betray his country for his friend.