The film of moral resistance against the Iranian regime that won the Palme d'Or and is a hit in France.

Active member of the Iranian Green Revolution, since 2009 Jafar Panahi has been the victim of various arrests, imprisonments and domestic confinement. by his country's government. However, he hasn't stopped filming, to the point of turning his films and the conditions under which he was forced to produce them, often confined to his home, into a reflection of these experiences of captivity and a form of artistic resistance against political oppression. A simple accident represents, at first glance, a return to a certain normality. The winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, which is sweeping the French box office, is a film shot under less restrictive circumstances and, in terms of narrative, is one of the Iranian director's most accessible works.

The film begins with the accidental running over of a dog by a family traveling by car. While the young daughter is horrified by the incident, the parents invoke God's will to avoid any moral or emotional involvement in the death of the loved one. But this simple accident leads to an unexpected encounter. One of the mechanics repairing the car believes he has identified the father of the family as his tormentor. And he kidnaps him to exact revenge. Until the shadow of doubt leads him to seek out other victims to make a joint decision. Panahi takes us on one of those road movies Urban scenes so typical of Iranian cinema, where we follow this group of people scarred by state violence. The filmmaker presents this unexpected situation with some touches of absurd comedy, while the characters open debates about what their position should be in this scenario: Forgiveness? Forgetting? Revenge? Reconciliation? Panahi creates a dialectical and powerful work, without any compromises or final complacencies, about the moral responsibility of any citizen in a context of oppression.