Hamid Djavadan

THE PATIENCE STONE is adapted from the best-selling novel by Atiq Rahimi. It tells a story of a young woman watching hover her older husband, in a country torn apart by war.

Living amidst the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war, Shideh is left alone to protect her young daughter, Dorsa. When a missile hits their apartment building but fails to explode, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbor that the cursed missile might have brought in djinns - malevolent spirits that travel on the wind.