One Thousand and One Nights is about worlds underground, where jewels are embedded in darkness and a beautiful woman maylove a devil; it’s about powerful slaves and foolish demons, secret spirits hidden in jars; it’s about truthliving in the treacherous heart like an abiding and holy law waiting to be revealed in the words of a story told by aporter, atailor, a concubine or lady—all through the lips of the lady Shahrzad to an enraged, cuckolded king on arevenge mission against woman-kind. If she stops telling stories, he will kill her like every other woman he sleeps with.