Love in the Time of Oil

Description

“The police actively searched for her. Notices and advertisements appeared in newspapers offering a generous reward from His Majesty the King for her capture, dead or alive. What does His Majesty have to do with the disappearance of an ordinary woman?!”

Lovers of old competed in describing love, its arts, methods, paths, and intrigues, but they didn’t know that a time would come bearing a different kind of love; a love devoid of affection, with no room for emotion, a love encased in an oil-based layer, an insulating layer that obliterates all meaning of mercy and compassion, a layer that transforms life into an endless path of torment. This woman, who ventures out in search of herself only to find herself “accused” of running away from her husband’s home, is a unique case, unfamiliar to society, a malady that must be confronted so that it doesn’t spread and so that other women know they too can escape the oily societal trap that suffocates them.