Closes the story of the now ageing and ill Al-Sayid Ahmad, with his children facing middle age, and a modern Egypt emerging in his grandchildren Ahmad, communist activist, and his brother, Abd al-Muni'm, Moslem fundamentalist, are both working for what they believe will be a better world Yasmin's son, Ridwan, has a promising political career, abetted by a homosexual liaison with a prominent politician, and Sugar Street, in old Cairo, becomes a window on Egypt's past casting light on its future