On her wedding day, Zahra runs away and heads to Tunisia where she crosses paths with a married man and falls for him.
Zahra decides to escape on her wedding day and takes the Algerian desert road, where she continues her way to Tunisia. As she runs away from passers-by who try to harass her, she gets into a car accident. Maryam, the wife of an important Algerian figure, finds out that she has a terminal illness.