With hopes of spending some quality time together, a grandfather (Jeddi) asks his 19-year-old grandson, Khaled, to join him on a desert trip the day before Khaled travels abroad for university. The two men visit a petrol station store on their way into the desert. Night falls, and we learn that Jeddi’s health is in decline. As they sit around a campfire, a strange light, representing the jinn ‘Abu Fanoos’ (‘man with a lantern’), appears and lures Khaled into the darkness. Jeddi, fearing for his grandson’s life, sets out to save him in a final act of protection.