A small abandoned house, lost in the Algerian campaign. Here, Ouardia has buried his son Tariq, a soldier, maybe killed by his own brother Ali, leader of an Islamist faction. Ouardia is under the surveillance of an Ali's group member, a man with an arm amputated after an explosion. In this atmosphere of pain and dryness, life will gradually reassert itself. Through the garden that will bloom again, Ouardia shows courage, work and perseverance. Thanks to her keeper, who is a victim too, and finally adopted by Ouardia. Thanks, above all; to the arrival of Malia's child... Malia, who was loved by the two brothers, and died during her childbirth. But Ouardia's ordeals are not about to finish: Ali, her damned son, comes back to her, seriously wounded...