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Nina Denisova, a student of a pedagogical institute, together with a concert brigade comes to the construction of a railroad. Here she meets her former classmate, with whom she is secretly in love, and decides to stay at the construction site. Nina will not immediately realize that because of Tolik she should not have left the institute and changed her life in such a way, but she will not regret her decision.
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As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.