570 BCE. The world is cruel to many who live within the Babylonia Empire. Napsha, an impoverished sixteen-year-old teenager yearns to prove his manhood but discovers that his life is about to be transformed by an ancient supernatural force. Tragedy strikes when he contracts leprosy and is forced to flee in search of an elusive leper colony. Lost, on the verge of death, Napsha is revived by drinking from a mysterious pool in a desert cave. This is the beginning of a 2,500 year journey. Without his knowledge, the teenager has been granted the gift of immortality but the disfigurement of leprosy remains, alienating him as an outcast forever. Against the backdrop of the dawn of civilization, will Napsha discover that immortality may be the far greater curse than mankind's damnation of his affliction?
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