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His love for Zefir, a 19th-century polymath who eventually wished she had never met him. The Core Themes

The Djinn offers her in exchange for his total freedom. However, Alithea is a "creature of reason" and knows from her studies that stories about wishes are almost always cautionary tales that end in disaster. subtitle Three.Thousand.Years.of.Longing.2022.W...

The plot follows (Tilda Swinton), a lonely British scholar of narratology who travels to Istanbul for a conference. While there, she buys an antique glass bottle and accidentally unleashes a Djinn (Idris Elba). His love for Zefir, a 19th-century polymath who

His time with a concubine named Gülten, who used her wishes to win the love of a prince, leading to tragedy. The plot follows (Tilda Swinton), a lonely British

To convince her to wish, the Djinn recounts three fantastical stories from his 3,000-year history:

His first imprisonment, caused by the magic of King Solomon.