Acting
A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.
Rasoul who works as a teller in a bank, lives a simple life with his wife, Zohre, and their daughter. Until one day, he has a road accident with a wealthy woman named Batoul and her son. Rasoul takes them to the hospital and they soon realize that Batoul has gotten amnesia ...
Tuba works daily at a grueling textile factory in Iran, returning home every night to deal with the rest of her problematic family, which includes: a pregnant daughter whose husband beats her regularly; a teenage son, who's been getting into trouble due to his burgeoning career in radical politics; and an older son who goes to great lengths--such as attempting to sell the family's meager house--in order to get an engineering job in Japan as a means of getting out of Iran.
Mahmoud is a computer engineer, chemical warfare veteran with cancer. One night as they were walking down the street, they noticed that two motorcyclists had stolen the bag of a girl named Shiva and disturbed her. Mahmoud gets involved with them and…
