Top Cast
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Taraneh Alidoosti
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Hamid Farrokhnejad
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Peyman Ghasemkhani
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Hengame Ghaziani
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Tarlan Parvaneh
Overview
The renovation of a rambling family homestead becomes a metaphor for an unexpected assault on traditional family values when a newly married twenty-something brings her architect husband to draw up the plans for her aunt and uncle’s rehab job.
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Herself
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