Fortyish Mahan lives with his wife Sayer (Shadow) and their five year old daughter Yassi in a comfortable Tehran flat. He is a filmmaker and his last work is a documentary on (or a reenactment of) a notorious honor killing of a wife by her jealousy crazed husband (we see the ending at the opening of the movie). The channel refuses to show the documentary as is and requests changes in the ending, but before he can do them somebody puts the documentary on the Web. This motivates threats (legal and worse) from the victim's family to the channel and Mahan. He is fired and let to confront legal problems and possible payment of damages by himself
Sayer is at the time not working and looking for some free time to finish her PhD thesis. She decides to look for a job and is recommended by a friend for a position in a somewhat mysterious import-export business. She takes the job and performs brilliantly; the company has business in Spain and she is fluent in Spanish. Her success upsets Mahan who begins to envy Saer, mistrust her and accuse her of nonexistent infidelities. Gradually, Mahan whips himself up into a frenzy of jealousy, envy and mistrust not unlike the husband in his documentary and the situation reaches a crisis at her return from a business trip to Spain.
It would be difficult to find anything negative in this film. The plot is suspenseful without being contrived or artificial, the script fits every character like a glove, acting is uniformly excellent (not unusual in Iranian movies), the cinematography captures equally well the bright colors of the Spanish episode and the gloomy interiors where Mahan dwells. Director Alireza Raisian construct his film fitting perfectly the tale. A must watch.
Sayer is at the time not working and looking for some free time to finish her PhD thesis. She decides to look for a job and is recommended by a friend for a position in a somewhat mysterious import-export business. She takes the job and performs brilliantly; the company has business in Spain and she is fluent in Spanish. Her success upsets Mahan who begins to envy Saer, mistrust her and accuse her of nonexistent infidelities. Gradually, Mahan whips himself up into a frenzy of jealousy, envy and mistrust not unlike the husband in his documentary and the situation reaches a crisis at her return from a business trip to Spain.
It would be difficult to find anything negative in this film. The plot is suspenseful without being contrived or artificial, the script fits every character like a glove, acting is uniformly excellent (not unusual in Iranian movies), the cinematography captures equally well the bright colors of the Spanish episode and the gloomy interiors where Mahan dwells. Director Alireza Raisian construct his film fitting perfectly the tale. A must watch.
