Das Versprechen der Wüste

Oman 1958: Full of expectations, British archaeologist Joan Seabrook embarks on a journey to the Arab world with her fiancé Rory. She is finally going to meet her great idol, the elderly explorer Maude Vickery. However, the arrival is disillusioning: the country is at war, Maude is cold and distant, and Rory increasingly withdraws from Joan. It is only the British commander Charles Elliot who takes her under his wing and lays the magnificent world of the Orient at her feet. Until she makes a fateful promise. A promise that pulls Joan into the dangerous secrets of the desert...