Synopsis
Saeed is a forty-year-old mason, severe and fanatical in his religious beliefs. One day his wife is accosted by a driver who assumes she is a prostitute. Seething with rage, Saeed seeks revenge. In so doing he gets into various bruising encounters, and each time comes out the worse. He then goes on to see women, and especially prostitutes, as the root of all evil and decides to rid society of sin by eliminating whores. The prostitutes he eliminates are, however, merely destitute women forced to sell their bodies in order to feed their children.
Director
Ebrahim Irajzad was born on July 19th 1981 in Mashhad, Iran. He received his BA degree in Film Direction at Isfahan’s Sooreh University in 2006. He then directed a series of short films that gained both national and international success. His 2012 short, A Few Kilometers Away, was selected for the Rotterdam International Film Festival, amongst others. His 2016, short, Reed Bed, was awarded the second prize for best film adaptation at the Tehran Short Film Festival. His first feature, Searing Summer, was selected for the competition section of the 35th Fajr Film Festival, receiving the ‘Crystal Phoenix’ for best cinematography and editing. It went on to gain much international acclaim and win many awards.
