Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.
In an ordinary Iranian town, two mysterious strangers in a car begin to park daily at the same spot for hours. This unusual occurrence causes paranoia among the locals, who suspect them to be national security.
Harun suffers from his dreams, causing him mental anguish. This is the result of his experiences as a warrior in the civil war. He seeks a cure for his illness, uses traditional and religious methods, goes to an elderly woman to get a tattoo on his hand. If he loses blood from the tattoo, he thinks...
