Firdaus’s rejection impacts the psychiatrist’s self-confidence, and she compares herself to a lowly insect. At this point, she feels that her research and her life are in limbo. The psychiatrist returns to the prison multiple times trying to be meet with Firdaus, to no avail. She walks away and leaves the psychiatrist at the gate. In the warder’s eyes, although Firdaus murdered a man, she’s still an innocent woman who doesn't deserve her death sentence. The warder accuses the psychiatrist of working with “them,” an unspecified group of people who wish to harm Firdaus. She glares at the psychiatrist as if she will be one to hang Firdaus in a few days. The warder seems upset that the psychiatrist continues to push to see Firdaus. The next day, she returns to the prison and asks the prison warder to see Firdaus, but the warder says that Firdaus will never see her. Her mind is focused on Firdaus, who is scheduled to die in 10 days time. She returns home and attempts to work on her latest book, but she cannot focus. The psychiatrist was supposed to meet with other women prisoners, but she decides not to. It is finally revealed that the subject's name is Firdaus. The psychiatrist is intrigued and asks for a meeting to be arranged. For example, she refuses to file an appeal with the president of Egypt to get her sentence commuted to life imprisonment instead of death. According to the prisoner doctor, the subject is unlike any other of the prison inmates. The psychiatrist found out about the subject while conducting research on female prisoners and detainees. The novel opens with a psychiatrist explaining that this is the story of a real woman.
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