A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (TIFF)

A woman in an unnamed, war-torn Middle Eastern country delivers an engrossing, emotional monologue to her comatose husband, in novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi’s poetic and politically charged allegory based on his award-winning novel. (TIFF)