Fereshteh loses her home and her two sons after her husband's accidental death when Hadj Safdar, her stubborn and powerful father-in-law, forces her to return to her parents. She is faced with the loss of her visitation rights when Hadj plans to send his grandchildren to live in a remote town. With the help of her circle of women friends she tries to take them beyond his reach, but in a patriarchal society it is hard to find a safe haven.

本片讲述了一名学院妇女，其思想被其父、不中意的丈夫和贷款所摧毁，而她的朋友在德黑兰生活相对自由。

Every time our annual international film fest hits town, I scan all the offerings, with special attention to Iranian productions. I have seen so many fascinating films from a country that, in recent years, has banned Hollywood and other films foreign to them, and yet their filmmakers, despite having to follow strict guidelines and risking censorship at every turn, produce some of the finest films in world cinema.
This documentary features interviews with several Iranian filmmakers, plus clips from a number of their best films. Among various aspects of Iranian film-making, they talk about how their reflective films differ from the Hollywood action variety, although there is such a role for Iranian film as well. What perhaps is really remarkable is how freely these producer/directors talk in a critical way about the censorship exercised in their country. The clever ways they get around it actually appear to challenge and enhance their creativity (as Duke Ellington once said, in describing how he had to compose his music to fit the talents and limitations of his band members, "It can be good to have limits"). Unusual scenarios between husbands and wives get around the rule that men and women, even when married, can't touch. Children are sometimes used to state in an allegorical or analogous fashion what could not be presented by adult characters. And the role of women is wondrously portrayed in these productions from a country that severely limits women's roles.

一部电影的力量究竟有多大？甚至可以使人牺牲生命？导演泰米妮米兰妮因本片遭伊朗宗教法庭以教唆叛乱罪起诉，直至国际名导科波拉等人集体连署上书政府高层，方获保释。而现实中的戏剧性政治嘲谑，亦如影片拍摄主题：原本生活无虑的法官夫人，因为先生奉命审理女政治犯的死刑上诉案件，开始面对尘封已久的过往，理想、自由与爱情，透过自白书与今昔岁月的交错叙述，不但揭开了过去的神秘面纱，也展开一趟政治的同时也是私领域的探险与革命。