Regional Competition

In the 1970s, an Iranian student Zahra meets a fellow student Maria at university in Bucharest, and the two develop a deep friendship. As political turmoil brews in Iran, Zahra quits university and returns home full of revolutionary aspirations. Separated by both the physical distance and uncertainty of two political regimes on the verge of collapse, they maintain their connection through a series of letters, spanning over ten years, chronicling their struggles as women fighting for a voice. The film presents a subjective, feminine history of two countries and societies that experimented with different political systems, an Islamic and Communist one, in which people were gradually crushed by the repressive political apparatus.