Leda, a rich, retired, childless physician, is seduced into becoming a terrorist. Despite warnings from her husband, Leda joins her college Muslim friend to work in Palestinian refugee camps where she becomes radicalized by observing conditions under Israeli control. She is attracted to a young, handsome Egyptian physician, Talib, who invites her on a camel trip through the desert to Palmyra. He seduces her physically in a tent during a sand storm and asks her to be a heroine and help him ...