The Gravedigger's Wife

The Gravedigger's Wife

The deeper the love, the greater the sacrifices.

202183 min6.7 / 10

A tender, melancholic portrait of a couple's devotion tested by poverty and illness, grounded in the intimate struggle to preserve love amid material hardship.

Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet.

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