Fatima Abdullah has lived eighty-five years, and she knows when her time will come: just nine days from tonight, on the 1,001st visit of Scheherazade, to whom Fatima has been telling her life stories. Before that night, Fatima must find a wife for her openly gay grandson, teach Arabic to her pregnant teenage great-granddaughter, make amends with her estranged husband, and decide which of her children should inherit the family home - all while under FBI surveillance.