Die Feuerprobe

Salim Alafenish's tribe in the Negev desert is suspected of murder by a neighbouring tribe. When all mediation efforts fail, the father, the sheikh of the tribe, agrees to the most radical test of truth, which knows the ancient law of the Bedouins: the trial by fire. If his eldest son passes the acid test, the tribe is considered innocent. If he fails, four men must die to atone. Now begins a drama that will last for many years. Wars rage in the land, and the old life of the Bedouin is shattered. But in the end they all find themselves back in the hut of a fire tester in Egypt. Following an old, magical ritual, he uses a red-hot pan to carry out the proof of truth, the judgment of God. Salim Alafenisch will never let go of the secret of the trial by fire. He travels back to the fire tester and researches this ritual, which has been going on until.