The narrative follows a grieving mother who tends her husband's grave on a hillside outside a city after he falls in a suppressed uprising. She devotes herself to raising their son with dignity and a memory of the lost cause while the surrounding community endures silence and ruin. Military repression and collective suffering frame their lives, and later authorities arrest the mother and attempt to compel the boy to testify against her. The account examines maternal fidelity, private mourning, and the human costs of political violence in a landscape marked by loss and watchful occupation.