Following a trip to Egypt, Lucy, a young journalist, arranges to meet Jean-Didier, one of France’s best known psychics and spiritual consultants, known for his many television and radio appearances. Lucy comes to Jean-Didier because she seems to be "haunted" by some form of entity which seems to be sticking to her skin. Was this a dream? Was it her imagination acting up? Or was she going mad ?

While meeting with Lucy, Jean-Didier confirms the presence there in the room with them of an entity of Egyptian origin – Lucy was certainly not crazy. Jean-Didier says that the entity which had been following Lucy was known as the "Sun Child". The entity was simply trying to make contact with Lucy, as her current state of "hypersensibility" and psychic intuition allowed her to sense the vibrations of other beings. Lucy seemed to be inextricably linked with the "Sun Child" through one of Lucy’s previous lives.

With Jean-Didier’s help, Lucy makes contact with the entity through a form of automatic writing, It is through this mechanism that the Sun Child dictates to Lucy over the course of several weeks am amazing story of life after death and the existence of past lives. He explains that his choice of using Lucy and Jean-Didier to reconnect to the world was not by chance, but because they were both directly implicated in his own story.

1869: "Woman": a word that had haunted Hamed (the Sun Child) throughout his existence. He had never known how to talk to women. They had always frightened him with their veils concealing the purity of their faces. The way they would look at him were a constant reminder that in Egypt, love was not granted so easily. Moreover, he hated the women of his country. And yet, he the Sun Child was waiting for love to give him the strength to re-read the Koran as he needed a helping hand to retrieve his faith. In the meantime, every night he would fall asleep imagining a woman by his side.

September 1871: The first British soldiers set foot in Egypt. Hamed is just beginning work in his first job as a waiter at the Fontana Hotel when he observes passing by on Ramses Place a barouche, carrying a lady who was the embodiment of the woman who Hamed had, for many years, dreamed and fantasized of as the perfect love who he was destined for. And today here she was before him, carefree and roaring with laughter, with a devilish allure. Her hair blond as wheat were mostly hidden beneath a colonial-style hat. It was the first time he had come across a woman not wearing a veil, and certainly the first foreigner he had seen. For Hamed, it was true love at that moment.

The woman, Ann, ends up taking a room at the Fontana Hotel and Hamed would make every effort to see her furtively and follow her movements. One day he finds her leaving the hotel with two men who he heard suggesting that they all travel to the pyramids of Giza. At that time, however, travel to the tombs of the ancestors without special authority was heavily restricted and trespassing was severely punished. Hamed feels that he should go stop the group, but as he had to finish work before leaving the hotel, by the time he arrived he was too late, as the security services had detected the group’s illegal presence and put Ann and her two companions in jail.

When the guards refuse to release Ann and her friends, a fight ensures between the Sun Child and the guards and, feeling the power of love coursing through his veins and the rage of unleashed gods within him, Hamed stabs the guards and frees the three prisoners. At this precise moment, Hamed’s life is blown apart irreversibly. He could not now return to the Fontana Hotel and would need to disappear. Mohammed, a close old friend of Hamed’s, agrees to hide Hamed for four days, before Hamed would leave for Aswan with Ann and one of her companions, her husband, John.

Ann and her friends were leaving for southern Egypt to explore the Temple of Abu-Simbel built by Ramses II and to meet with the inhabitants of Elephantine Island in a bid to understand the legend behind the people of the felouks (Nile riverboats). After a long voyage, they arrive to Aswan and stay with Ali Ben-Azir, a rich local and a friend of Ann and John’s.

One month into the first expedition to Elephantine Island, Ann continues to gather information about the inhabitants of the Island, while in the meantime John and his Egyptologist friend Peter were exploring the local temples. Hamed has no issue with John entering these temples as he knew that John’s intentions were honorable – his intentions were not to steal the treasures therein, but simply to understand the secrets of the gods.

To protect them from the gods, Ali Ben-Azir gave to John and Peter a ring designed to attract the positive energies of invisible spirits, a ring known as the Ring of Ra. But there was always the danger it could also attract the energies of more spiteful spirits…

On 22 April 1871, Peter unwittingly arouses the anger of evil forces by studying the mystery of a cursed dune. That evening, Ann had decided to have a walk on her own. Hamed, meanwhile, feels a malaise come over him, a sensation of the purest fear followed by the sound of a voice coming from somewhere which was murmuring to him "Death is here, nearby…"

Hamed is overcome by the sudden knowledge that Peter had lost his mind and that the power of the cursed dune had influenced Peter to set out to strangle Ann with a scarf. Hamed catches up with Peter while the latter is beginning to attack Ann, and Hamed and Peter end up in the Nile where they have a desperate fight. The Sun Child manages to rescue Ann and fight off Peter, who ends up being killed by Hamed in a vicious battle.

Under a state of shock from the incident, Ann has a number of difficult days where she feels unwell. The Sun Child, meanwhile prays to the moon for some time asking for Ann to be well and fertile, as it had always been thought that Ann was unable to have children. However, several days later a medical exam brings the wonderful news to Ann that she was expecting a child.

During a party arranged to celebrate the good tidings, Ann announces that she had had decided to return to England to await the birth of her child, something which Hamed had been predicting with sadness for several days previously.

After her departure to England, Hamed naturally became the employee of Ali Ben-Azir in recognition of Hamed’s kindness but also due to Ali’s friendship for Ann and John. After 3 long months of waiting, Hamed finally receives a letter from Ann saying that the pregnancy was developing nicely. He would read this letter every night before going to sleep. Sometimes when he could not sleep, he would talk about it with Ali who had become, with time, his spiritual guide. They would spend together whole nights discussing how they would change the world or retracing the difficult steps of their lives.

One day, Ali Ben-Azir organized something special for Hamed. He arranged for Hamed to meet Mehalir, a young lady from Elephantine Isle. At the moment of this meeting and as though by magic, Hamed hears once more a small voice from elsewhere as though it were being whispered into his ear: "We have just planned your marriage". Even if that seemed incredible, Hamed decides to put his faith in destiny and he knew now that Mehalir was also a child of the sun.

The Sun Child receives a letter from Ann talking about Mary, her daughter, now aged 4 months. Lately he had been very happy particularly since for the past several months he had been inseparable from his sweet Mehalir. There were now living together under the roof of Ali Ben-Azir with his blessing.

One morning, Hamed announces to Ali that he felt it was time for him to be married as Mehalir had now turned 16.

Ali agrees to arrange the wedding and prepares a surprise for Hamed and Mehalir by having Ann, John and Mary come from England.

Two years had passed since the marriage of Hamed and Mehalir. Since that time, they had been living happily on Elephantine Isle. Ali had offered a Nile riverboat to Hamed so that the latter could establish his own boating business. The English language which Hamed had learned from Ann and John proved very useful to him in communicating with his clientele particularly in his role as tour guide for the cruises along the Nile which he would arrange.

Life therefore seemed on the face of it to be well-arranged – but this was but a façade. One day, Hamed feels the same bizarre sensations he had felt years previously during Ann’s solitary walk. Once again he could hear a small voice from a mysterious source at the base of his ear: "Death is nearby, close to you…" Hamed once more felt a sensation of being possessed. Several minutes later, Mehalir announced that Ali Ben-Azir had committed suicide. Ali had learned that he had been afflicted by a serious malady of which there was no hope of recovery, and decided to end his life before more suffering came.

But Ali passed away without knowing that his death would be a stepping stone to a specific belief – that of life after death…

Informed by Hamed, Ann and John travel to Egypt to render a final homage to their lifelong friend. Upon their arrival, they discover that Ali Ben-Azir had requested that a meeting be organized after his funeral. This meeting would serve as a contact point between them and the world of the beyond.

At the meeting, Ali Ben-Azir appears via a mirror: "Please don’t be sad! I have come to tell you that there is a life after death. I will watch you live each day that you are on earth. I will counsel you and protect you. Ann and John, you are henceforth children of the sun. Our all-powerful God has accepted you among those of His. Your boundless courage and willpower are recognized here. We are proud of you…"

Six months after the death of Ali Ben-Azir, Mehalir and Hamed decide to make a voyage to Europe. They had been studying beautiful paintings of European landscapes that were hanging in the main hall of their house and had begun to dream of discovering those far-off places. And above all they wanted to surprise Ann and John. The bequest which Ali Ben-Azir had left them had given them the possibility of living differently.

On the 28^th of August 1875, the boat left the port of Aswan towards Alexandria before setting of to England. On the 6^th of September 1875 dropped its anchors a the ship dropped its anchor at the port of Liverpool. Hamed and Mehalir immediately take the train to Manchester.

Arriving in Manchester, Hamed and Mehalir head directly towards Ann and John. The reunion is one of great joy and happiness for all – even the spirit of Ali Ben-Azir is at the get-together.

John is so proud of Hamed that he asks him to try to write an article on the conditions of slaves in Egypt. The article ends up being so well-written it marks the start of Hamed’s work in the world of journalism.

Three weeks later, John hires Hamed to work as a trainee reporter. Most articles Hamed writes end up getting published but Hamed prefers to work at Ann and John’s house as he doesn’t appreciate the stress of the news office. Meanwhile Mehalir watched over Mary, Ann’s daughter, while her mother was busy writing a new book.

On the 11th of October 1875, Hamed, Mehalir, Ann and John decide to take a trip across the Channel to France aboard a liner. Arriving to France, Ann reminisces that she had studied a sociology course in Paris for 3 years during her late teens. Her parents had placed her with a French family where she learned proper French. The friends make a brief stopover in Paris and continue on towards a house known as "The Sun Villa" in Nice.

Just as they arrive to the Sun Villa, Hamed once more feels strong sensations of anxiety almost taking him over, and hears the small voice by now well-known to him murmuring: "Flee the Sun Villa! The souls of those who killed me reign within those walls! They are there to hurt you as well. Leave quickly. Heed my counsel, I am your friend…"

Hamed takes a moment to consider the implications of this new message which seems to have come from the beyond. So many questions, so few answers…why was he being contacted like this? Moreover, Ann and John were now also beginning to feel the strange invisible presence among them. What was certain now was the Hamed was no longer the only one to sense these judges of the Sun.

Ann decides to do some research into the Sun Villa and speaks to a local merchant who tells her that although the Villa was empty now, it had been previously been inhabited and the city’s antiquary could certainly give them information about the former owners.

Ann meanwhile begins to feel unwell and develop strange feelings of malaise. She begins to wander about aimlessly and murmurs strange comments such as "don’t leave me". Eventually she loses consciousness and is taken to a local hospital.

Hamed began to feel more and more anxieties taking him over and he knew this was not a good sign. He now was afraid of falling asleep since when he closed his eyes horrible images came into his mind. He could see Ann’s spiritual envelope leaving her body and slowly moving towards the heavens.

The doctor attending to Ann eventually informs the other that she would need to return urgently to England for detailed medical examinations. It seemed that those who were haunting the Villa had succeeded in chasing them away…

It is February 1876, and Ann has been living in Aswan with Hamed for over two months. Before his departure, John had arranged for her to see the greatest British specialists. All had agreed that she was suffering from stomach cancer and there was little doubt that no more could be done for her.

And yet, Ann decides to fight on day after day, even being far away from home. With much courage, she rapidly regained her strength, and several months later, given the considerable improvement in her health, Ann decides to return to Manchester.

The day of her departure, a beautiful surprise was waiting for her. Ali Ben-Azir appeared and asked for Hamed to transmit to Ann something precious: "The secret of the Desert".

This secret was a special perfume, which Ann had to use until the 21^st of June having worn it over forty days. Then, in front of the torch of wisdom, Ann had to promise to the Sun God to never deceive it in order to heal definitively.

During this time, Mehalir was heavily pregnant, on the 21^st of December, the day of winter, Mehalir gave birth to a beautiful young boy which they named Hamed.

A grand party was organized at their household. Alcohol flowed freely and spirits rose to the point of causing tensions. Following a dispute between a number of friends at the party who had had too much to drink, a chandelier ends up setting fire to the house. Hamed tries to fight off the flames while invoking the Sun God to help him save his child, who was in his room on the first floor.

After a ferocious combat with the flames, Hamed succeeds in saving his child but loses almost all his worldly possessions which had been in the house, including all of Ali Ben-Azir’s former belongings.

A new page had just been turned. It was the start of a new life…

From now on, the Sun God would not accept the presence of Hamed on the Elephantine Isle.

It is 1881, and Hamed and his small family had decided to leave their past behind in Aswan to live in Cairo. But this time was very trouble and war was raging in Egypt.

Events pushed Hamed towards a difficult choice. John had asked Hamed to accept to be the correspondent for his English newspaper. For the love of his son, Hamed accepts to serve England.

Several months later, British officers had a surprise in store for him. In recognizance of his work and the service to England, they gave him the possibility of becoming a British citizen. At the same time, he receives a letter from Ann congratulating him and asking him to come live in England.

The story therefore has a happy ending. To finish off, Hamed thanks Jean-Dider for having given him the possibility to express himself, and to thus tell his story and pass a message of spirituality and the reality of the beyond.

THE END