ATIQ RAHIMI

THE PATIENCE STONE
Starring Golshifteh Faranhi, Hamid Djavadan and Massi Mrowat. Directed by Atiq Rahimi.

Set in Afghanistan, 'The Patience Stone' is the partly allegorical tale of a Muslim wife tending to her comatose soldier husband who has been shot in the neck. As she cares for him, for the first time ever she is able to speak to him without fear of censorship and he becomes, for her, like the mythical Patience Stone to which you tell your troubles and when the stone finally bursts, you are free from your torments.