Fourteen-year-old Sun has published a book inspired by the legend of a boy named Hadara, who was separated from his caravan during a sandstorm and rescued by ostriches. In the Sahara, he grows up far from his family, accompanied by a young desert fox. When Sun travels to the Sahara to accept an award for her book, she meets a nomad girl named Kharouba and realizes that the legend is far more than a bedtime story…