Action Drama movie \"The English Patient\" occur during the second world War. Over the desert Sahara suffers crash plane destroyed by German soldiers. Local Bedouins found wreckage and rescue still alive, but very badly burnt face of the pilot. They care for him, but not knowing the name of the men call it simply the English patient. It trafficked to Italy where in the hospital followed care nurse Hanna.
Seeing that the patient slowly fades away, it remains close to him, to hear finally his love story with a married woman and the events that preceded the shelling of its aircraft. The hospital is another man, the past through hell by the Nazis, along with nurse Hanna he hears the story of a dying man. No wonder the fate brought the two men together in one place.