A woman whose husband has been killed in WWII lives with her father-in-law in the desert. She cannot leave and go back to her family, because that would mean the end of hope that her husband, a heroic pilot, might return one day.
In the Karakum sands, the only living plant seems to be the tree Dzhamal and her husband shepherd Nazar have set. Then it's war. When Nazar comes back from a convalescence at the hospital, ...