“When duty calls, which do you answer, your job or your child?”
A dedicated honorary teacher receives a distressing phone call from her neighbor: her sick child’s condition has suddenly taken a turn for the worse. Panicked, she rushes to seek permission from the school principal to leave early. But her request is denied. She must teach a critical class that no one else can cover. Faced with an impossible choice between her role as an educator and her responsibilities as a mother, she must risk everything to make a decision that could cost her the job she desperately needs… or the child she loves most.
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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.
