On the Arabian Peninsula at the 1930s, two leaders come face to face. Emir of Hobeika, the Nesib, lays his serenity terms of rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. Both men agree that neither may lay claim to the field of no person's property between them called The Yellow Belt. Nesib adopts Amar's two boys Saleeh and Auda. A dozen years later, Auda and Saleeh have turned to young men. Return to his father's property and then the warrior, saleeh itches to escape his eponymous cage. Auda cares limited to the search for knowledge and also novels. One afternoon, their adopted dad Nesib is visited by an American in Texas. He tells the Emir his territory is blessed with oil and promises him riches beyond his wildest imagination . Nesib imagines a realm of possibility, a kingdom with roads, hospitals and schools paid due to the stone beneath the sand. There is just 1 problem. The oil is located in the Yellow Belt.