Summary: Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly, Body of Lies) delivers a spellbinding performance in Atiq Rahimi's THE PATIENCE STONE, adapted from his best-selling novel, winner of the Goncourt Prize in 2008, the most prestigious book award in France. As a woman tends to her comatose husband, an injured rebel fighter in an unnamed, war-torn village, she pleads for him to wake and protect his family from the bullets that fly outside their window and tanks that roll in the streets. Fearing for the lives of her two young daughters, the woman takes them to the safety of a relative’s home while she returns daily to care for her unresponsive husband. Weeks go by, and as her desperation grows, an awakening begins to take hold, giving voice to her previously unuttered thoughts, grievances and desires.
