The thousand and one nights is one of the most important and influential works of universal literature. It is a compilation of stories and legends of Hindu, Arabic and Persian origin, of which there is no definitive text, but multiple versions.

King Schahriar, after suffering the infidelities of his wife, decides to marry every day with a young virgin who is executed the next morning to avoid any other betrayal. To prevent all the girls of the kingdom from dying, the young Scheherazade volunteers to marry the monarch, and uses her cunning to propose a pact through which she can not be executed until she finishes telling a story. The stories that compose it will be prolonged over a thousand and one nights ...