The main character was a merchant, his foolish servant and Lady Death. The setting was in Baghdad, Iraq, most likely sometime in the A.D era. The servant went into the market place to shop for his master, the merchant. In the market, where the servant bumped into Death, he was so terrified that he asked his master to,”...lend me your horse, and I will ride away from this city and avoid my fate.” The servant then rode to Samarra to avoid Death, but little did he know, Death was waiting for him in Samarra.