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This is three different stories, from three different time periods, all connected through the thread of one family who serve as watchmen for a synagogue in Old Cairo. It all began with the first watchman, an unlikely position given to a young Muslim, and who takes his job seriously until at one point he is overcome by more powerful forces. He is forgiven, and the job is passed on through the men in his family for generations, until we come to the last watchman's son, who attempts to unravel the
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