It will be dangerous, the forbidden "book" of the emerald. It is the year 978, and al-Mansur in the kingdom, it is considered heretical work, because it sows doubt and change anyone who has read it. In the oriental spices and the smell of freshly filled streets of Cordoba to ram two men on the perilous search for the last copy: Safwan, a young aristocrat, and the darkly fascinating Amr. This book, Amr hopes to topple the tyrant al-Mansour would be forever - but as the young Friesian Atika joins the search, and both men fall in love with the strange, intelligent woman who got Amr conspiratorial plans in danger ... The colorful, sensual and Agnes Imhof exciting story of her heroine's Atika in Moorish Cordoba between Orient and Occident, between mysticism, love and baleful delusion.