Synopsis

Director Nahid Persson follows the lives of two Iranian women whose misfortunes have landed them in the same run-down building.

Their husbands are serving long prison sentences, both have been left to look after their young children and both have had to resort to prostitution to support their heroin habits.  

Persson's sympathetic portrait follows them as they struggle to create a better life for themselves and their children.



The film unveils the lives of two women, Minna and Fariba, in a city in Iran. The women are neighbours, good friends and support each other. Both of them are subjected to the double standards that permeate Iranian society today.

They make a living on the streets, where they meet their male customers. They have a choice between leaving their small children at home alone or taking them along when they have sex with various men.

The film, narrated by the director, Nahid Persson, who fled from Iran twenty years ago, portrays the women sympathetically and explores their everyday life and the way prostitution functions in a country, where it is banned and where adultery is persecuted, sometimes resulting in capital punishment.

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