Erämaan hehku was released in the year 1997。Erämaan hehku is also called as Passion in the Desert, Uma Paixão no Deserto, Simoom: A Passion in the Desert, Simoom, Passione nel deserto, Pasiune si desert, Leidenschaft in der Wüste, A Sivatag rabjai。

Young French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. Napoleon sent de Paradis to record Egypt's great monuments and temples that are destroyed by French soldiers in acts of barbarism. During combat, Augustin and Jean-Michel are separated from their regiment, and they start wandering through the desert fighting for their life. In one of the canyons Augustin meets a leopard he names Simoom and a strange bond between them appears.

Erämaan hehku actors and actresses include Michel Piccoli。