At the close of WWII, a young nure tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Beginning in the 1930's, "The English Patient" tells the story of Count Almásy who is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanes of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorer. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enter into a world of love, betrayal, and politics that is later revealed in a series of flashbacks while Almásy is on his death bed after being horribly burned in a plane crash.

during World War II , a British aircraft flying over the Sahara when the Germans shot down the aircraft 's pilots face was all burned , local people rushed to save him the Allied field hospital . Because of the accident , the pilots lost memory, can not think of who he is, only called " The English Patient " . French and Canadian descent retaining Shi Hanna is a field hospital , a nurse , the war she lost the boyfriend Jimmy root , and strayed into the minefield , but also the way the wounded transferred to lose a best friend Jane , so kind-hearted Hannah decided to left alone to take care of the " English Patient " .