Shortly after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war, an Iranian border town is occupied by the Iraqi army. A small girl who has survived the invasion finds a baby amidst corpses of the dead. She also meets a young boy, Yunes, who is involved in the armed resistance against the occupation. Suddenly the two young children have to parent this little baby. The film tells the story of innocence lost for two children as they struggle to survive the ravages of war and preserve their own humanity. In Persian w/English subtitles.

Born in 1955, Kambozia Partovi studied dramatic arts at Tehran University. He worked in theater and made fiction and documentary films for Iranian television. His first feature film, Mahi (The Fish), was made during the Iran-Iraq war, in 1987. Among his subsequent films are Golnar (1989), Gorbe-ye avaze-khan (Singer Cat, 1990), Baziye Bozorgan (The Adult Game, 1992), Afsane-Ye Do Khadar (Two Sisters, 1994), Naneh Lala (Naneh Lala and her Children, 1997) and Café Transit (Border Café, 2005), which won best screenplay and best actress awards at the Fajr International Film Festival in Iran.

Also a scriptwriter, Partovi is the author of Dariush Mehrjui’s Shirak (1987), Jafar Panahi’s Dayereh (The Circle, 2000), Atiq Rahimi’s Khakestar-o-khak (Earth and Ashes, 2004), and Rassul Sadr Ameli’s Man, Taraneh, Panzdah Sal Daram (I'm Taraneh, 15, 2006)