a girl saying a song or prayer in a very dry cracked riverbed to make it rain. as she's chanting she is rolling a piece of clay on the ground and then finally it begins to rain and fill the river bed

In 1919, Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Holding on to hope, Joshua must travel across the war-torn landscape to find the truth and his own peace.

In a small desert village, the inhabitants are struggling with a drought. The efforts of the officials trying to find a solution fail, and villagers begin to leave. When they hold a Rain Prayer ceremony as a last solution, two orphans are asking a different prayer, praying that the rain not come. Every night, the stars in the sky blink down at the orphans through the hole in the roof, which has recently collapsed.

A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat. "Come on, Rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Then the clouds roll in and the rain pours. And Tess, her friends, and their mothers join in together in a rain dance to celebrate the shower that renews both body and spirit.

The lack of rains and a dying river has put the lives of the inhabitants of a remote fisherman's village at stake. Deprived of their main source of income and finding it increasingly difficult to sustain themselves, the villagers who have consulted oracles and conducted "frog-weddings" are now desperately looking for a way out of their plight. An unusual solution presented by a priest seems like a possible cure for the curse and though reluctant at first, the villagers decide to go ahead with it for the greater good of the village. Village simpletons nicknamed Benga and Bengi, suddenly find themselves at the centre of the chaos that ensues - and it changes their lives forever.

Arid soil, sun, wind. A procession crosses the landscape. The echoes of their prayers bring the rain.

Far away in a foreign and apparently merciless world, a little girl struggles to carry water pots that are far too heavy for her. Uncomplaining, she hauls the jugs from a distant place to her sick mother in their wretched home.