Yek shab

A young woman lives with her mother in a cramped apartment in Teheran. One evening, when she comes back home from work, her mother asks her to go and sleep somewhere else. The girl wanders around the city all night long. She comes across 3 men, each with a different story to tell.

"I wanted to leave the city with all its problems and chaos in the background, and at the end, have the two characters observe from a distance a city which comes out of the dark night into daylight. The main character has been transformed by a long nocturnal journey. It's like a thousand stories occur unseen in this city. We have just followed a few of them. We have taken some distance so, as to understand more fully the complexity of the difficult situations which exist between city dwellers. The lies, the violence, the sex seethe under the surface, and people look for a foothold in all of this. The city, instead of being a refuge, is turned into a place people try to escape from." (N. Karimi)