Two families, one bourgeois and intellectual and the other proletarian and fascist, both share the city of Rome. A trivial accident will bring these two polar-opposites together and set them on a collision course.
Fifteen-year-old Lara (Hannah Rae) lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine (Jessica Raine). Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange vi...
After her mother's illness worsens due to the air pollution in Tehran, an unmarried female shop owner comes to the suffocating realization that her selfish relatives are trying to control her life, leading to a personal mutiny against male domination.
In 2001, Iranian president Mohammad Khatami runs for re-election. While a group of young supporters campaign for the reform-minded Khatami, Arezu Bayat, a twice-divorced single mother, decides to run for president herself.