Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
engineer, tree, long take, film crew, tradition, milk, buried alive, farm, reporter, tortoise, cell phone, digging, mountain, matriarch, terminal illness, boy, dying, family relationships, death, irony
Kiarostami films the encounters and the landscapes with a patient, painterly tenderness, but his modest methods conceal vast political goals.
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