Plot Summary:Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi bombing. The warden's attitude starts to change after 8 years, when Mitra tries to protect a new inmate from rape at the hands of her older cellmates. When the baby comes back in 1991 as a 17 year old delinquent, Sepideh, the warden respects Mitra enough to protect the girl.
常见的监狱中社会关系,但不常见的角色形象,尤其在于,传统保守男权宗教色彩浓厚国度中,如此极端女性、监狱、政治、性、挑战道德(不戴头巾),简直都触犯了禁区,禁映也是难免,去总结这部电影的“危险思想”话,监狱中囚犯共同的凝聚力所有的反抗意味、太多有悖政府宣扬价值观的形色道德堕落者才是不能被容忍的关键
@Iran classic-flim FCP with Sherley.