The time frame of the story starts in 1958. It is just after the Baghdad Revolution where young King Faisal and his family were murdered. The Communists began a rampage of killing and hanging naked, headless, corpses of men from Bagdad's lamp posts. Qassim is the head of the Bagdad Revolution, and afraid stop the Communists. James McMartin receives an invitation from his old classmate, Cyrus Zafar to come to Iran. He happily accepts even though there was a revolution in neighboring Iraq with bodies with the headless and naked bodies of men hanging from lamp posts all over Baghdad and Iran...