Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world--a life of education, work, and comfort -- implodes when Afganistan is engulfed in war, and the Taliban rises to power. Mahmoud is murdered and Fereiba loses track of her teenage son. Faced with an impossible choice, Fereiba pushes on with her daughter and baby.