College student Alex Hassan decides to join a Middle Eastern holy war, prompting his grandfather Ali to share with him a secret manuscript containing the story of his own life. Ali looks back to the 1950s, when he was working on the set of the epic film, The Ten Commandments. But Ali's golden future as an American movie mogul gets upended when he is caught up in a web of events that change the course of history. In the present, he's forced to unearth the past to save Alex from making the same tragic mistakes.