Two secret policemen - Sufi-trained veteran, Mustafa Awad, and eager young acolyte, Oliver Martin - pursue their destinies on opposite sides of the world as the footsteps of history skip across the eternal waters of time. Questions, unanswered and unasked, weigh like momentary stones, paving the hidden paths they each must follow. The fates of countless inter-woven lives unfold with every step, watched by ancient eyes.