Somewhere on the circumpolar tri-continental expressway, the highway covering Eurasia, Africa and America, you'll find Al Desir, the jewel of the socialist republic of Turdistan. And that's where Gypsy's heading. He's got a rendezvous with his little sister, Bibi, who is there for research purposes to write a book on The White Wing (a sect that's been forbidden since the revolution) and Sissiah the sorceress, who was recruited by the sect when she was just 10 years old because of her power to change faces...