The novel poses the following questions to the reader:
- How did Joseph spend his nights in the well?
- How did the father receive the news when he was told that his son was eaten by a wolf, and when he was told that his son was stolen?
- How did Joseph feel when he learned that his brothers, the people closest to him, intended to kill him?
- How did he feel when he was thrown in prison and spent 12 years in it while he was innocent?
- How did he feel when Zuleikha said to him, "Here you are," and how do we explain a crowned queen madly in love with one of her slaves? What is the interpretation of pleasure, lust, or possession in this case?
How did Jacob endure more than forty years of separation from his beloved son Joseph?
- How was the meeting after the long years of separation, and what did Youssef, his father and his brothers say?
All these details and more, and all these dialogues that reveal the characters' psyches, are what this novel attempts to answer.