A father imprisons her two children in the house for 11 years from when they were 2 years old up to when they became 13 years old.
When the neighbors become aware of the fact and inform the welfare ministry to come and help the children, the girls have already become retarded and could not talk and walk like the girls their own age.
After a while the welfare ministry sends the children back to their father on the condition that he does not imprison them again but their father imprisons them once again.
A nurse whom has come to the house to take care of the children is forced to lock the father in the house to be able to take the children to play in the streets.
The girls experience their first social life when they step into the street and their father whom has been locked in the house notices the condition of his imprisoned girls.
At the end the girls whom were now free, struggle to free their father from the house prison. -- MFH
Director:Samira Makhmalbaf Producer: Makhmalbaf Productions Writer:Mohsen Makhmalbaf Editor:Mohsen Makhmalbaf Director of Photography: Reza Sheykhi, Hossein Amiri Release Date: December 27 Certificate: PG
About this movie
Title: The Apple | Sib | La Pomme (1998)
Directed by: Samira Makhmalbaf
Date of birth: 15 February 1980, Tehran, Iran
Writing credits: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Samira Makhmalbaf
Year: 1998
Country: Iran | France
Language: Farsi
Color: Color
Runtime: 85 min.