Hamed Zolfaghari

In Iran’s remote nomadic landscape, a family navigates their traditional existence in a modern world. When their sheep vanish overnight, tensions rise between the three sons and their parents.

At the gateway to the Lut Desert, in the province of Kerman, Iran, the ancient caravanserai of Shafi Abad becomes the site of an unexpected video workshop. Director Hamed Zolfaghari provides a group of housewives with cameras, just as they’re starting to organize a co-operative to control every step of the fabrication and sale of their handicraft products.