The Square of Democracy: The Epic of the Square with a Thousand Entrances and No Exit

The ruler appears on every screen under a golden inscription saying the people deserve to hear their own voice, and announces the greatest project in the city's history, the Square of Democracy. Its architect, Yusuf Nader, believes that every place a person enters must show him how to leave, and slowly discovers that this square has entrances everywhere and no exit. On its platforms a baker, a teacher, a mother and a doctor speak of bread, schools, work and medicine, and the crowd applauds each time while nothing changes, and Salim the bookseller walks for hours looking for the gate he came in by. Elections bring candidates with different faces and identical speeches, and mirrors on the walls multiply every shout until an old woman taps the glass and asks what is behind it. The book ends with the people breaking the mirrors and learning that the most dangerous prison gives every prisoner a microphone and calls the echo freedom.