Bilgi :In a hospital waiting room a woman learns her daughter, Solmaz Gholami, has just given birth. The ultrasound test had prepared the family for a boy. The baby, it turns out, is a girl. The joy the mother anticipated turns to terror for she knows her son-in-law's family will abandon her daughter. The old woman flees as the in-laws arrive. On the crowded streets of Tehran - a place where women are not permitted to stay out on their own or smoke in public - two women are also on the run. Arezou and Nargess have just been granted temporary leave from prison but they have no plans to return. They manage to scrounge together enough money for the bus trip to Nargess' hometown, but she lacks proper identification, and the police are searching everyone at the station. Meanwhile, their friend Pari has just escaped from prison in order to have an abortion. Threatened with death by her brothers, she flees from her father's house and meets with a former inmate, Elham, who is now married to a doctor and works in a hospital. Despite her connections, Elham is unable to help Pari in her hour of need. Despondent, Pari wanders the streets and chances upon Nayereh, a woman about to abandon her young daughter. Pari tries to stop her, but it is too late. Soon after, Nayareh, falsely accused of prostitution, is taken into custody by the police. As Panahi's narrative shifts dynamically from woman to woman, their stories culminate with tremendous potency, transforming a shared sense of despair and injustice into one kinship, and even hope.Si parte da un ospedale dove una donna ha partorito : purtroppo è una femmina, e non un uomo come la famiglia avrebbe voluto. Tre prigioniere approfittano di una libera uscita per fuggire. Fuggita di prigione ed incinta viene cacciata di casa perché non sposata. Ragazza-madre è costretta ad abbandonare la propria figlia nella speranza di farla adottare. Altre storie, altre donne. Gli uomini appaiono poco nel film, ma sono presenti nella storia e nella cultura di un paese in cui le donne devono lottare per riacquistare dignità ed un posto nel mondo in una società, quella iraniana, pervasa dall'arroganza del potere maschile. Dall'ospedale, il film termina nel carcere, quasi a voler significare la mancanza di speranza della donna di salvarsi e di rendere vivo il sogno di una vita diversa e migliore.
