Armin Aryamanesh

a dancer, chasing harmony through the rehearsal room

To punish her son, a mother hires a monster to take him away. She pays the monster and waits for the return of a statue made from her son's body parts.

A short story about the gradual submission to the power that commands the quiet.‌‌

An unsettling psychological descent into guilt, denial, and fractured identity. A father attends his daughter's funeral—a girl who was brutally assaulted and murdered. But when a young stranger, eerily resembling the father, appears and begins an unwanted conversation, the fragile facade of reality starts to crack. What begins as a confrontation spirals into something far more harrowing: a reckoning with a buried self. Inspired by Amélie Nothomb’s The Enemy’s Cosmetique, this film explores the monstrous duality of man—and the haunting price of facing one’s own darkness.

"A free adaptation of the short story Behind the Thin Stalks of the Reed Fence by Houshang Golshiri."