When Rasheed returns home from work, young Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed is enraged, he bursts into acrimony, animosity, annoyance….there’s a storm…..he creates hell. Rasheed beats Laila with his belt, He seizes...she restrains, he pulls… she breaks…he pelts…she dissolves….ut Mariam comes to Laila's defense by killing Rasheed with a shovel. To prevent Tariq, Laila and their two children from being hounded by the Taliban all their lives, Mariam sacrifices herself for them by confessing to the killing of her husband. Laila and Tariq leave for Pakistan with the children. Miriam is publicly executed (shot).
Mariam ends up killing Rasheed in trying to save Laila from being killed