Storyline

Well-known actress Behnaz Jafari is left distraught when she comes across a provincial girl's video plea for help, after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to filmmaker Jafar Panahi to help with the young girl's troubles. They travel by car to the rural northwest, where they have amusing encounters with the charming and generous folk of the girl's mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover that old traditions die hard.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords

actor director writer, acting, 2010s, rural setting, gossip, film actress, aspiring actress, video message, sleeping in a car, car driving, presumed dead, social justice, actor director, iran, young girl, actress, cell phone video, suicide, suicide by hanging, missing person

Short Review

...more than anything it's great to see the work of a doggedly determined filmmaker who refuses to buckle to the demands of his country's hard right.

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