Jasmine Nights

Synopsis

1942, and the world is at war. It is a war that has already shattered families and devastated countless lives. But for some, it will also mean the greatest of adventures. Saba has grown up with the world on her doorstep. In the docklands of Tiger Bay, Cardiff, every nation lives and works side by side. But the budding young singer, raised on her father's Lebanese tales and her grandmother's Turkish songs, longs to see the world for herself and jumps at the chance of a part in a show sent to entertain the troops in the Middle East. It is a journey that will take Saba far from home, to the heat and colour of Turkey, to the fading glamour of Beirut and to Damascus, the City of Jasmines. But Saba soon realizes that a British girl with Arabic roots is a rare and valuable thing. On the glamourous Middle Eastern social circuit, Saba rubs shoulders with double agents and diplomats, movie stars and smugglers. Some want her voice, some her friendship, and some the secrets she is perfectly placed to discover. JASMINE NIGHTS is a tale of decadence and destruction, of love and of danger. It is the captivating story of one woman in an extraordinary world.