In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy. The baby, it turns out, is a girl. The joy the mother anticipated turns to terror for she knows her son-in-law’s family will abandon her daughter. The old woman flees as the in-laws arrive. On the crowded streets of Tehran – a place where women are not permitted to stay out on their own or smoke in public – two women are also on the run. Arezou and Nargess have just been granted temporary leave from prison but they have no plans to return. They manage to scrounge together enough money for the bus trip to Nargess’ hometown, but she lacks proper identification, and the police are searching everyone at the station. Meanwhile, their friend Pari has just escaped from prison in order to have an abortion. Threatened with death by her brothers, she flees from her father’s house and meets with a former inmate, Elham, who is now married to a doctor…
Release Date: 8 September 2000Runtime: 90 min
Stars:
- Abbas Alizadeh
- Ataollah Moghadas
- Elham Saboktakin
- Fatemeh Naghavi
- Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy
- Khadijeh Moradi
- Maedeh Tahmasebi
- Maryam Shayegan
- Maryiam Palvin Almani
- Mojgan Faramarzi
- Monir Arab
- Nargess Mamizadeh
- Negar Ghadyani
- Solmaz Panahi
Director: Jafar Panahi
