故事开始于2003年，当时波斯湾战争甫结束，就在伊拉克南方，被媒体发掘还有少数存活的战俘。 　　远在另一端，在收音机前的有位库德族老妇人，听到新闻后，心感到一阵悸动。因为她参战的儿子，到现在还没有回来。因此，老妇人凭着一股坚持的信念，她毅然带着年幼孙子，启程出发找寻失联已久的儿子。 　　她对于年幼的孙子，逼不得已存活在穷苦的环境，感到心疼。但只要能找到父亲，一家人还是可以团圆。老妇人仍坚信儿子还好好存活于世界上某个地方。 　　旅途中，他们看到乱世中形形色色的人们，穿梭了各种形貌的悲苦、困顿。当然，亦不乏朝圣者脸容满溢希望光辉的正面激励。因此，心境再怎么百转千回，她都不愿放弃寻亲的希望，哪怕只是一丝丝的可能性，都包藏无穷的契机。

　　When three Emirati soldiers are ambushed in a hostile territory, their commander leads a daring mission to rescue them.

生活在伊朗，荒谬是正常。为儿子改名大卫不获批，因名字太西化；更新驾驶执照被拒，只怪肢体有纹身；汽车遭没收，因为驾车没戴头巾；去应征工人，被要求当场示范拜祭礼仪……两位伊朗80后导演联手执导，以简洁而见巧思的叙事设计，摆定镜头让九名男女大演黑色幽默独脚戏；由小学女生、求职中年汉以至失狗老妪，每天不得不面对政府机关、学校、企业卡夫卡式的荒腔走板。政教威权样样禁制，道德枷锁层层施压，最后土崩瓦解的，可会是整个波斯文化根基？

This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.　　This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.　　The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.　　The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.