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Rıza is a man who has become rich through bullying. He is involved in various illegal activities in his neighborhood. Ali, a poor fisherman, is in love with Rıza's daughter Hülya. When Rıza learns of this, he tries to keep Ali away from his daughter. To do this, he falsely accuses Ali, causing him to be imprisoned. After spending nine years in prison, Ali is released. Much has changed in those nine years. Rıza's daughter Hülya has married a man named Celal. Ali sets out to confront those responsible for his imprisonment. During this process, he and Hülya revisit their past.
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A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.

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.