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A new law is passed which makes the act of reading subject to a license. After waiting in line to get his license, Ali finds himself stuck with a permit that allows him to access only certain types of books. Ali does not give up easily. Under the gaze of men in uniform, he will try every possible way to get the books he wants.
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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.

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.