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Storyline

When Babak, an Iranian student in Greece, doesn’t show up to welcome his parents at the Athens international airport, his mother, Pari, is forced to go on a quest that will take her much further than a mother’s search for a missing son.

Pari and her older husband Farrokh are ill prepared to search for a fugitive in an intimidating alien environment. They are devout Muslims, this is their first time abroad and they hardly speak any English. Soon they reach a dead-end and when Farrokh commands their return back to their family in Iran, Pari does the unthinkable; she escapes to continue the search alone.

Following the steps of her rebellious son, Pari uses everything and everyone to reach the darkest corners of the city, as well as the hidden depths of her own soul.

The search of Pari, an Iranian woman in her 40s, for her son, who came to Athens to study but has gone missing, will take her on a journey from the darkest corners of the city and the hidden depths of her own self to her ultimate freedom.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2020
Panorama