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After the death of her father, 17 year-old Noufissa and her mother must go live in the mansion of Lalla Amina, the wife of an important Tetouan dignitary. There she develops a close friendship with Lalla Amina's granddaughter.
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AR

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.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.