Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
Casts Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Caner Cindoruk, Yılmaz Erdoğan, Belçim Bilgin, Arash Labaf, Ali Pourtash, Beren Saat, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Arslan Burak Bozdag
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