Rami has always been content to pass through life as spectator. Haunted by the memories of his failed relationship with the 173-year-old Olinda Munnoch, he wiles away his evenings watching his only friend reassemble ancient pottery shards in the basement of the British Museum.
His cloistered existence is turned upside-down by the enigmatic political dissident, Yusuf al-Makari, who offers him greater purpose. When the machinations of this enigmatic freedom fighter ushers both men into the presence of God, one of them will be chosen and the other will fall. The Missionary Dune is a short novella with its foundations planted in the shifting sands of Magical realism and ideas.