Atiq Rahimi : 2012
Syngué sabour
A beautiful Afghan woman tends to her fighter husband in their bomb-shelled bedroom. He is comatose, a bullet wound in his neck. She protects her two daughters from the ongoing guerilla fighting that rages outside whilst she clings desperately to the hope that one day he will wake up and recover consciousness. In Persian mythology, Syngué sabour is a magical stone to which one tells one's misfortunes and miseries, everything that one does not tell anyone else. The stone absorbs all these secrets like a sponge until one day it bursts. And then one is freed. Thus, the convalescent husband becomes the silent confidant as the wife starts a monologue about her personal story, the story of men and society's oppression against women. Finally able to speak openly for the first time, she reveals her deepest secrets and desires. Appearances, however, are not what they seem. Gradually, the woman turns the tables on the patriarchal society she has been born into and uses her husband's condition to her advantage, confounding the various hostile men around her.
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