A visually stunning adaptation from a banned short story of the same title by renowned Egyptian writer Youssef Idriss, House of Flesh casts a widow who believes that her daughters' prospects for finding a husband would improve if there were a man in her house and agrees to marry a blind young sheikh. In the house brimming with pent-up sexual desire and longing, the presence of the blind man becomes a spark of fire in a dry field of grass.