Ali, who wanders through the vast, deserted spaces of central asia with his
herds, travels to the megapolis to find his wife, who left him many years ago
when she went to the city to earn money. In ali’s tow is their nine-year-old
son. Ali looks for his wife everywhere, and searches for her – alive or dead. A
silent stranger, he wanders the labyrinths of the unknown city. In this long
and hopeless search, he is driven by love; it helps him uncover Dante’s secret
of his terrible inconsistency. love is no match for life. But he has to go his way
right to the end to unravel his destiny. Yet destiny requires an unreasonable
payment. When the journey ends, when he has gone the whole way, he will
come back to the surface of the earth. But under his feet there will already be
another earth, and above him there will be another sky.