Tehran Taboo 2018

The fabric of their lives is woven with threads of oppression and desperation as four principal characters navigate the complexities of a rigidly conservative society. Pari, trapped in a loveless marriage, is forced to succumb to prostitution, her six-year-old son Elias unwittingly caught in the midst of this moral decay.

In a desperate bid for liberation, Pari seeks a divorce from her husband, only to be rebuffed and subsequently offered an unsavory arrangement by a judge who barters her off as a concubine. In this cramped and crumbling apartment, she encounters Sara ( actress name ) and her husband, their own struggles with the suffocating strictures of Iranian society unfolding like a Greek tragedy.

Meanwhile, Donya’s plight is one of existential crisis, forced to confront the cruel realities of a culture that demands purity from its women. She confides in Babak about her impending nuptials, only to reveal the horrifying truth: she’s been sold to a trafficker bound for Dubai, where her worth will be measured by the mythical value of her virginity.

As Sara’s world begins to unravel, Pari takes advantage of an opportunity to exact revenge. A prank phone call, disguised as a gag sex chat, is traced back to Sara, precipitating a catastrophic chain reaction that ultimately leads to her downfall at the hands of her husband. The film concludes with a sense of crushing despair as Sara’s world implodes, while Babak flees the country, forever changed by the brutal realities he’s witnessed.