The Film
Life in Iran, exploring tensions within a family and between classes and cultures. A middle-class couple have an 11-year-old daughter and care for his frail, elderly father. Simin, the wife, wants the family to leave the oppressive state: Nader, reluctant to leave his father, refuses.
When Simin leaves the family home he employs Razieh, a young, deeply religious woman from a poor suburb. She desperately needs the work, but has religious hesitations about caring for a male outside of her own family. Struggling to keep things going she ties the father to his bed when she is out of the flat. Nader confronts her by angrily pushing her out of the flat; she falls, and miscarries.
Complex legal proceedings, first concerning compensation for the life of the unborn child and then the couple's separation, end with the daughter having to decide which parent to live with.
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