'The Saddlebag' is a tantalising tale of what befalls nine different individuals as they travel the desert route between Mecca and Medina in the middle of the nineteenth century. Each encounters and is changed by a mysterious saddlebag. It seems a perfectly ordinary saddlebag when the Thief steals it from a pilgrim. But what are its contents, so precious and so powerful that they can wreak death or joy, ruin or salvation?
