Story about The Patience Stone / سنگ صبور / 忍石 / 聆听石
Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thi...
Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only is he abandoned by his companion of the Jihad, but also by his brother. One day, the woman decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their relationhip to her silent husband. She talks about her childhood, her suffering, her frustration, her loneliness, her dreams, her desires... She says things she could never have done before, even though they have been married for the past 10 year. Therefore, this paralyzed man unconciously becomes syngue sabour, a magic stone which, according to Perian mythology, when placed in front of a peron shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pain and miseries. In this wait for her husband to come back to life, the woman struggles to survive and live. She finds refuge in her aunt's place, who is...
