

A nice but poor medical student, Petros, lives in a poor courtyard with a down-and-out musician, Antonis. His fellow student Eleni is in love with Petros, but he has no eyes for anyone but Aliki, a girl from an upper-class family, whom her parents wish to rehabilitate with a son-in-law of their own class.
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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.

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter.