War destroys homes, takes away the lives of relatives, and turns entire cities into ruins. These are not the most terrifying things. It is the most terrifying thing that causes people to lose their most basic humanity and faith, hope, and love. For Nawa, the war caused her to lose her lover and son, but the belief as a mother supported her for most of her life. In the face of the cruelest reality, she did not collapse, but was full of helplessness and sadness in the world. No wonder she said in her will, "Let me be buried naked, face down, with my back facing the world."
Although the movie does not portray much of the ethnic and religious contradictions in the Middle East at that time, the desolation and panic that can be seen everywhere is undoubtedly not. Implying the wreckage and shadow left on the country and the individual after these fierce conflicts; the fact that Nawa had fallen in love with a pagan youth and was pregnant before marriage made her a shame in the eyes of everyone in her hometown. In their eyes, a life that was originally noble is not comparable to the so-called "religious honor." This is a malaise in the age of war, and it is also a moral wasteland that many people find difficult to get out of.
In the process of searching for the orphanage, Nawa witnessed a group of soldiers with live ammunition shooting all the passengers in a car, and the necklace of cross that she took out easily saved her life; she thought Save the poor child, but the child died instantly because of his innocence and innocence. Everyone left, and black smoke rose in the vast desert, leaving only Nawa lying on the ground to witness all this, helpless and desperate. What can she do in this era of loss of reason and humanity? Only use one's own strength to resist and survive in this ruined city.
At the beginning of the film, when the client entrusted by Nawa gave a few letters to Nawa’s children, Jane and Simon, a round was set for them and everyone; we all wanted to know how many secrets were hidden in the envelope, and Everyone who learns the truth in the end will be shocked. He even wondered for a while, why did the mother Nawa tell the truth to the children Jane and Simon so cruelly? After Nawa knew that his son Nihad was the torturer Abtarre who raped her back then, is it necessary for her child to personally touch the scars of the sorrowful history?
At the end of the film, the two letters to Nihad, Nawa wrote to him in two identities; it reminded him of his crimes that year, explained the psychological trauma of being a victim, and expressed his mother’s Love, because Nawa knew that Nihad must also be looking for his family. The phrase "being together is the most beautiful" undoubtedly mixed up a mother's most sorrowful appeal and deepest love for war.
If Nava’s heart is not firm enough, if she can’t resist and lose her sanity when she is put in jail and tortured in a thousand ways, if Nava feels heartbroken about the belated truth, if Nava doesn’t have the courage to take it all away. Tell your sons and daughters Jane and Simon, tell Nihad who is both the executioner and the son, then everything will turn into a desperate reincarnation. No one will know the secrets hidden in this scorched earth city, and no one will understand the torment that this woman named Nawa has suffered.
Although everything in the movie is tragic, the ending still has a comforting tail; Nawa was finally able to enter the land for peace, because the vows were kept, the silence no longer exists, and her son Nihad will stand for a long time. At the mother's grave, atonement.
War is painful and wailing. After being injured, Nava finds that destiny points the hatred to the son she most wants to see. Should she resent, suffer, and be fortunate? Nawa chose to wash all the dust with the last touch of love.
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