Set in an unnamed Afghan city (filmed partly in Kabul ) amidst an active civil war, the plot focuses on a young woman (played by Golshifteh Farahani ) caring for her older, comatose husband. He has been shot in the neck —not in a glorious battle, but in a petty squabble .
The film is set in a war-torn village in Afghanistan. It centers on a woman whose husband is comatose after being shot. As she cares for him in a room with a bullet hole in the neck, she begins to express her innermost thoughts, secrets, and frustrations to him, treating him as the "patience stone" of the title—a magical stone in Persian folklore that listens to your suffering until it shatters.
