Aisha Begins Life As a Portuguese Peasant, Moving to Paris to Seek Out a Less Stifling Existence As the Nanny for a Bourgeois Couple. However, When Aisha's Brother Jose, Newly Arrived in Paris, Kills Himself As a Protest Against the Cruelty of the Modern World, Her Life Falls Apart. in Desperation, She Journeys to Morocco to Find the Sheikh Who Brought Jose to Islam.