A Small Place in the Desert

Just before 9/11, Peter Saunders, an elderly Englishman, visits Egypt with his wife fifty years after he was posted there as a young army officer. However, it is not the monuments he has really come to see, but the scenes of his past, where, while he was involved in sporadic fighting with Egyptian guerillas trying to drive the British out of Egypt, he fell in love with his admired commander's unpredictable young American wife. As the couple revisit the scenes of Peter's past, it seems their Egyptian guide is somehow connected to it. Finally, while 9/11 is happening the other side of the world, Peter has to confront the fatal events that scarred his life.