Best-selling romantic novelist Joan (Katherine Turner Kathleen Turner) and lover Jack (Michael Douglas Michael Douglas) had planned to go to New York for a temporary stay, but the romantic Jack wanted to change his plan and sail to Europe, which made the exhausted Joan further doubt the authenticity of his life. At this time, one of Joan's readers, the Egyptian tycoon Omar (Spyros Fokas Spiros focus á s) invited Joan to his palace to write a biography and trumpeted his plan to unify the Nile tribe as emperor. Jack, who is separated from Joan, is so depressed that he encounters his former colleague Ralph (Danny DeVito Danny DeVito) and the assassination of Omar's Nile native Tarak (Paul David Majid Paul David Magid) at the bazaar, and his ship is mysteriously bombed. The trio decided to go to Egypt to expose Omar's scam and rescue Joan at the same time.