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A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.

Top Cast

  • Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee

    Fereshteh Sadr Orafaee

    Reyhan

  • Parviz Parastouei

    Parviz Parastouei

    Nasser

  • Nikos Papadopoulos

    Nikos Papadopoulos

    Zakario

  • Svieta Mikalishina

    Svieta Mikalishina

    Svieta

  • Vantzos Konstantinos

    Vantzos Konstantinos

  • Esmail Soltanian

    Esmail Soltanian

    Oujan

  • Esmail Soltanian

    Esmail Soltanian

    Karim

  • Rana Karmanshahi

    Rana Karmanshahi

    Leila

  • Zahra Jalilzadeh

    Zahra Jalilzadeh

    Sara

Overview

A young widow takes over her late husband’s truck stop café, keeping hidden in the kitchen so as not to cause a scandal in Iran’s conservative society. But her brother-in-law, out of familial obligation, wants to take her as a wife and also take over the café. Meanwhile a Greek trucker who is a frequent café customer is slowly entranced — at first by her sublime cooking ability, and then by her.

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