Village Prisoners

Although they live in a tiny and calm town in the twenty-first century, they have no knowledge of the outside world save what they see in front of them, and what differentiates them most are their unusual relationships to one another.

Wherever you find them in that community, they are all living as if they are from the same family, and one of them never misses an opportunity to host an event for which he invites all of his neighbors without exception. He's nearly a century old, yet his body is still in his twenties or thirties, and he has enough grandkids and offspring to populate a whole country.

And he was exerting his dominance on the whole hamlet, and he had a granddaughter named Ahlam, in whom he saw her grandmother, who, despite the passage of more than thirty years, refused to marry after her departure. Uncle Othman kept an old image of a girl in a dark chamber in his house, and he denied anybody to visit it for whatever reason, but Ahlam one day violated him and entered it to see pictures of a super female Beauty, according to his words.

She was her age, not yet twenty, and she knew Hafsa was not her deceased grandma because she recognized her image. "Don't talk about this subject in front of your grandfather," he instructed her, "and don't ask me any more questions about it." She tried to ask her father about the owner of the photo, but he refused to answer her. And that settlement was bordered on the bank by a thorny fence. There are four vicious dogs for Uncle Othman near the fence, opposite the river, which are very interested in the region and will eat the flesh of any outsider who steps foot in it.

And every day, a woman in her forties tried to reach that settlement, but she backed away because of the dogs, and one day, while Ahlam was walking near the river, she observed a peculiar movement, which I followed and fainted when she saw it. "Don't be scared, Aunt," the scraps of food said as they ran behind that odd woman and grabbed her arm. "Surely, you are Othman's granddaughter and the eldest daughter of the youngest of his children.

When Ahlam arrived, she was greeted by two young men, one of whom entered the house and the other stood outside, saying to him, Khaled, who is this stranger standing near your house, she must be a thief, so she approached him and screamed at him that the owner of the house had invited her, and then that woman approached her and told her that she was her aunt. And that Grandfather Othman is her father, but when the grandfather tried to marry off his daughter to one of his relatives after the grandmother died, she ran away, met a young man, married him, and bore him.

But, because she is dying of leukemia, she wanted her father to forgive her before she died, so Ahlam promised her that she would persuade her grandfather, but the aunt begged that she not tell anybody because her condition was a secret that even her husband and son were unaware of. She ran across that young man, a cousin's acquaintance, on her way back to that unfamiliar village, and she quarreled with him again, telling him, "You are tasteless, how can you push me out of a house that is not yours?"

At home, she told her mother about the matter, so she was hurt and said to her, “I don’t think your grandfather will forgive her, even when he knows about her illness, because I know people with his cruelty and pride, and her father did not know about his sister’s illness, but he said to her: Do not tell your grandfather that you were there, because I do not want to lose my daughter, but she insisted and insisted as usual and went to him and when the name was mentioned.” Her aunt immediately got angry and slapped her for the first time, and said to her, "I will have to marry you."

She returned to her mother's fortune, crying while saying, "I will not marry that young man, no matter what happens." In the same way that she left the village before, she snuck out again, and went to her aunt's house, and she was crying and not wearing a coat and the rain was falling heavily, and if a coat fell on her back, and Asim was Khaled's friend, so she thanked him and said to him I didn't know that you were so polite, and she entered her aunt's house and gave him the coat, and after entering her cousin Khaled welcomed her and said to her aunt that she would like to stay with her for a few days, and she agreed.

Khaled heard what that old man had done and got very angry and decided to go to him after he knew that he was his grandfather, but the dogs ate his flesh before he stepped into the entrance to the fence, so Khaled’s time passed and his father found him a dead body. The cause of all the misfortunes, they were living quietly until she came to them, and then Khaled's father decided to go to Grandfather Othman to confront him. Asim tried to stop him, but he insisted and went and almost died as well.

But Asim came forward and faced the dogs and they were about to eat him, but he was not afraid and resisted them with all his might, so the grandfather approached him with the gun and his daughter came after her with her, the deceased Khaled’s fiance and his granddaughter Ahlam.

So that his bright face turned into a completely burned and deformed face, the dogs attacked Othman because they did not recognise their owner, while Asim was taken to the hospital and received the necessary treatment, and he spoke dreams. As for the dogs, when they realised the absence of their owner, they panicked and left the village, and their strength suddenly collapsed and became powerless and calm in the village For a while, then it was bustling with activity, and many schools, hospitals, and mosques were opened in them.

The noise returned to her after she was like a cemetery. As for Ahlam, she married Assem, and his sister was vehemently rejecting her, so she decided to leave the whole town. As for the aunt, she started her treatment, and she says that she is getting better, and all the unjust laws of the village that were in force during the era of Othman have changed, and that village became one of The most active village in the area, and those pent-up dreams that were inside all the inhabitants of that village were realised. Peace and happiness prevailed in them. But Ibn Ahlam had selfish, arrogant and arrogant behaviour similar to their grandfather, which made everyone fear that another Othman would be born for them.

He restores their village to its darkness in which they lived for nearly a hundred years of age, and destroys everything they built, so they return to the starting point, but dreams cannot die or be erased, and if someone controls them for some time, or suppresses them, the day must come and they explode.