Few films have had a stranger fate than this one, banned after the revolution and presumed lost until its reels turned up years later in a Tehran junk shop. It’s a period crime drama with a queer story at its edges, where Kubrick and Parajanov share a roof with gothic horror and Persian tradition.
When a wealthy woman dies in her grand house in Tehran, her husband, a corrupt merchant, sets out to get rid of his stepdaughter, who stands to inherit the house. Modern and educated, the young woman is utterly alone among people who would like to see her dead. So she asks a servant for help, and the servant is playing both sides.
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