Negin Tahamtan

The story of Sadaf, Azadeh, and Mona.

Amirali who has came to Iran for a short trip 7 years after his emigration to Germany, goes with his old friend Mahyar to their family villa in the north of the country.

As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran and families begin to flee, Yazdan, a man in his mid-30s, chooses to stay behind with his grandmother, who lives with Alzheimer’s and has no awareness of the war unfolding around her. Though escape is still possible, moving her would cause more distress than remaining. Inside their apartment, he takes on the quiet responsibility of caring for someone who no longer recognizes him, while the world outside grows increasingly unstable. As her memory unravels, their shared reality begins to divide: for her, nothing has changed; for him, everything has. What emerges is not a story of conflict, but of perception — a life shaped by something the other cannot register.

The film addresses the issue of execution as one of the most fundamental human crises. Through the story of a young athlete, the film raises a universal question: how can individual aspirations and freedom collapse in the face of legal violence and social pressures? On the final night, some rules and restrictions are challenged, and the possibility of redefining freedom is formed. Produced with limited resources, this work attempts to recreate the lived experience of the crisis of freedom in the language of cinema. By transforming an underground bunker into a prison space and building all the sets with his own hands, the director has turned limitations into an opportunity for creativity.