Between Revolutions

In the epistolary narrative, straddling between documentary and fiction, we meet Zahra and Maria — a pair of women who encounter each other in the 1970s while studying in Bucharest. Their incredibly close relationship is ruptured when Zahra decides to return to her native Iran in 1979, where a new political regime is established after the revolution. Hope and the promise of a freer society hang in the air, but it does not materialise. Likewise, Zahra never meets Maria again. They maintain their friendship only through intimate letters. The film tells this melancholic story using only archival footage, depicting two heroines entangled in the whirlwind of great history, from which escape seems possible only through memories.