Plot

Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari is detained by Iranian forces who brutally interrogate him under suspicion that he is a spy.

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.—abivians

A true story about an Iranian-Canadian journalist who works for Newsweek and reports live from Iran in 2009 about the Green movement of millions of Iranians protesting the rigged presidential election while his pregnant wife lives in London.—Alireza Bagherli

The true story of Maziar Bahari, an Iran-Canadian Newsweek journalist, who went back to Iran in 2009 to cover the national elections. Once the despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent, wins the Presidency, protests breaks out. After filming and reporting on the election and protests, Bahari is arrested, imprisoned, and tortured.—grantss