The story begins when a Kurdish woman seeks refuge at a gendarmerie outpost near Urmia. Jalal, the deputy commander of the unit, does not know why this attractive woman has come to them for shelter. No one at the outpost understands her language. All they can gather is that her name is Agerin and that she comes from a Kurdish village in the mountains behind the outpost. It is decided that Agerin will be kept in custody overnight and transferred to the Urmia regiment the next day. But this becomes the beginning of a criminal story - a flood that engulfs Jalal as well. Daryoush Karimi was born in Kermanshah. He studied English literature in Tehran. His translation of a book on Mikhail Bakhtin's views on literary criticism, titled Dialogic Logic by Tzvetan Todorov, dates from this period. He taught English literature and literary theory at university for two years before leaving Iran to continue his studies abroad. In 1999, he joined the BBC and moved to London. For a time, he produced and hosted the literary radio program Rozaneh. Ten years later, he was among the editors who played a role in launching BBC Persian Television. He spent two years overseeing the work of BBC Persian reporters, after which he developed and hosted the program Pargar. In recent years, his novels The Last Alley and Rudi and Ravi and Mouji have been published by Nogaam Publishing.