Babak Mohammadi

A horse, which was used for religious ceremonies, has grown old and it's been decided to sell it to the slaughterhouse; to be slaughtered The middleman, after hearing the horse's story, refuses to buy it because of his own religious beliefs. The horse breaks away and enters the life of a young depressed drug abuser. The young man's family has broken apart; but ...

The main themes of this film are WAR - FLIGHT - FAMINE - DISEASE from the viewpoint of children. Refugees from Afghanistan, Palestine, Nicaragua and Cambodia. Military training of Persian and Cambodian (refugee) children in camps. The soundtrack accompanying these frames consists of poems which prisoners scratched on the walls of their cells before they were executed.

Part 8 of the 14-part documentary series which discovers cultural roots and aesthetics of modern Iranian films and the relationship between different Persian art forms and Iranian Cinema.