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When professional artist Forough learns that her husband has gone to prison over bad business dealings, it is also revealed that he has kept a second, “temporary” wife, who now demands her legal dowry, which Forough must raise in the absence of her husband. Selling her art and furnishings, she enters into a complicated set of negotiations with her rival, demonstrating the tortuous straits that modern Iranian women often navigate.
Blu-ray, color, 86 min. Director: Hossein Shahabi. Screenwriter: Hossein Shahabi. Cinematographer: Hooman Salmasi. Editor: Hossein Eivazi. Cast: Fariba Khademi, Nasim Abadi, Mahsa Abiz, Maryam Sarmadi, Esmat Rezapour.
