A portrait of a Bektashi Muslim matriarch and her hard-working family shows gender equality blooming where least expected - in a rural community of pious Muslims devoted to family and tradition in a tobacco-growing village in the Balkans.

Mitrovica is a city in Kosovo ethnically divided between Albanians and Serbs. The landscape of the place frozen by conflict narrates two poems about the dying mothers. Two people seem to be lost in ruins and the cherry trees blossom.