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The word "azhnabiya" is used to describe foreign women in Arab countries. The novel by Maryna Hrymych is set in modern Lebanon, known for its interfaith diversity, and echoes medieval Arabic tales from the Thousand and One Nights. The plot focuses on two Ukrainian Azhnabiyas - Pavlina, married to Ahmad, a Sunni, and Vira (affectionately called Virunchyk), the wife of Zhavvad, a Shiite. Pavlina undertakes to help Zhavvad come to terms with his wife, but she suddenly disappears, and Ahmad, Zhavvad, Pavlina, and the mysterious Duruz Ziyad, who has unexpectedly joined the company, travel all over Lebanon in a red car in search of Virunchik. The book is imbued with delicate humour, which helps to imagine the specifics of interethnic marriages in the Middle East and to reveal the secrets of interfaith and intercultural understanding.