When Everyone Leaves

About this book

Imagine waking one day to find the din filling your ears has completely evaporated. No annoying alarms, no car horns stuck in traffic, no angry neighbors' voices.. only you, and silence extending to unknown horizons. "When Everyone Leaves" is no mere novel about people's disappearance, but a journey into the human psyche's depths when stripped of all its social masks and facing its naked truth in a silent world. The tale begins with "Mohamed," who long wished for quiet, to suddenly find himself king of an empty city, but he quickly discovers that "freedom" without those we share it with may turn into another kind of prison. Fate's threads tangle to gather six lost souls: between "Amal's" dreams of painting away from the world's din, little "Adam's" innocence searching for his mother amid the rubble, and "Mahmoud" and "Fatma's" wisdom seeing in this silence a chance for the earth to breathe anew. From Cairo's silent streets to mysterious research centers, suspense escalates when strange light signals appear on the horizon, and the heroes realize they are not alone as they thought, and that there is a hidden "engine" running this new world. Is it a nightmare ended? Or a new dream just begun? "When Everyone Leaves" is an invitation to contemplate human communication's value, and that moment when we discover the most beautiful thing in the world is not its landmarks, but the humans who depart leaving their souls' echo behind.