Plot Summary:The sun beats down mercilessly on a forgotten village in the mountains of Morocco, where Benocer and his wife Yomno, both in their sixties, live. Thursday is the postman's day and Benocer receives a letter with unbearable news.
The anguish of a peasant family, whose two eldest sons have gone to war. Their parents, wives and younger brother all await their return, hoping to be spared the worst... but the end of the story seems frighteningly inevitable.