From her prison cell, firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcome...From her prison cell, firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.