Sheherazade is the Persian narrator of the stories of 1001 nights. Sultan Sjahriaar was cheated on by his wife. Mad with grief, he decided to kill his wife and from then on choose a new bride every day and kill him the next morning.

Sheherazade, the grand vizier's daughter, could not bear the murder of so many innocent women and begged her father to marry Sjahriaar.

The night Sheherazades was to be executed, she began to tell a story so compelling that the sultan postponed her execution. Sheherazade kept this up for a thousand and one nights and slowly made the sultan believe in love again. In the end, Sjahriaar and Scheherazade lived happily ever after.