Based on a true story, The Ruby Bird's life began hundredsof years ago in India. The Maharaja presented a ruby and emerald broach toSultan Suleiman the Magnificant as a wedding gift. For years, the broach lay ina jeweled box, untouched, until his seventh wife found it. She immediatelypinned it on the sultan's turban. Soon after, the Sultan passed away, and thepalace became a museum. His statue, garbed in his royal robes and jeweled turbanwas displayed in a museum as a tribute to the glorious years of the OttomanEmpire. A trusted night watchman stole the ruby bird from the turban and soldit in the black-market bazaar for a handsome price. He and the Ruby Birddisappeared. And thus the story begins.