A sa sortie de prison, Ahmed essaie de refaire surface tant bien que mal. Il retrouve Lhoussine, un ancien compagnon de cellule, avec qui il va exploiter une modeste pépinière à la sortie de la ville, mais son but reste de retrouver Atika, sa femme disparue, pour obtenir son pardon. Il se lie d’amitié avec Halima qui vit seule, cloîtrée, depuis la mort accidentelle de son mari.
Upon leaving prison, Ahmen tries to find his feet again as well as can be expected. He meets Lhoussine again, a former cellmate, with whom he goes on to run a small nursery on the outskirts of the town but his goal remains to find Atika, his estranged wife, to seek her forgiveness. He befriends Halima who lives alone and shut away since the accidental death of her husband.