The manager of a successful travel agency, Arman, has just got away with committing huge financial fraud. Now he intends to flee the country before the authorities can catch up to him.
The Tangfani Pump House (Tangfani Oil Transfer Center), which was bombed several times during the Iran-Iraq War and then rebuilt, was once again targeted by Iraqi aircraft when it was opened and severely damaged. The National Oil Company officials believe that the only way to restart this important...
Frustrated writer-student Siavash stabs his sister's suitor, a wealthy antique dealer/money lender, to death. But cleaning woman Mahtaj witnesses the murder. Something about her rigid, unemotional stare prevents him from killing the only witness to his crime. Instead, he runs first to a friend's...
A veterinarian called Habib who has tried to expose the crimes of Shoulan, decides to commit suicide under the pressures of Shoulan. He meets a girl called Niloufar who persuades him to commit suicide. Habib does not know that Niloufar is Shoulan's last trick to perish him. Niloufar who dreams of...
Eesa and Mokhtar, who work at the mine, argue; Eesa pushes Mokhtar and makes him fall. Mokhtar's oxygen tank starts leaking without anyone noticing. Eesa finds methane and saves several people but Mokhtar dies from lack of oxygen in his bottle. Eesa is torn and must make a choice: lie, which would...
"From Afar" traces the malaise of a young artist and intellectual in three episodes: Book Burning, Breathing and Dawn. The Young protagonist lives in contemporary Tehran and he appears as a film student, an asthmatic businessman and a successful architect. In each story, he journeys toward a...
