妓女的荣耀

　　尤瑟夫每天都往返于他的农耕村庄巴斯玛和他在耶路撒冷城里的工作之间，满怀热情地努力在瞬息万变的现代世界中寻找自己的位置。他年轻而躁动，更渴望摆脱乡村生活的束缚，而不是被卷入其中的种种烦恼。尤瑟夫的故事与年轻寡妇拉巴布和她的女儿阿芙拉、粗犷的领袖哈立德、鞋匠兼当地神父卡里姆的儿子以及活力四射的都市人胡卢德和她的商人丈夫阿明的故事交织在一起。

 沙漠里流传着一句话：天出血，人死绝。故事发生在旧时代的西北，这样一片沙漠地带，它讲述了一个爱情悲剧故事。年青的问九因乡邻间缺水争执而出逃在外，待回来时，曾与之心心相印的秀秀姑娘已被族叔迎娶，成了他的婶婶。水继续威胁着人们的生存，问九的族叔为富不仁，竟以空手能否从滚开的油锅里捞起铜钱来决定人们在绿洲的去留，他狠毒地骗问九替他捞起铜钱却又暗地加害问九。问九奋起抗争，砍死了族叔，被官府捉捕。牢狱未能囚住问九渴求自由的心。他一次次寻求机会越狱。数十年后，当问九逃出虎口，却又被沙漠里的土匪抓住逼他带路，对秀秀的爱情支撑着问九最后的生命，他再次出逃，挣扎着爬回自己的故乡。但黄沙已无情地吞噬了这里的一切，唯有刻着绿洲村的石柱还未被淹没。问九手抚石柱瞑目在这荒原上。荒原上，彩霞满天。天出血，人死绝。

　　In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.

　　The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...