After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

The lives of three strong-willed women and a young musician cross paths in Tehran’s schizophrenic society where sex, adultery, corruption, prostitution and drugs coexist with strict religious law. In this bustling modern metropolis, avoiding prohibition has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation.

Weinachten 1971: Die siebenjährige Kimîa bekommt eine Super 8-Kamera geschenkt. Durch die neue Kamera beobachtet sie ihre Mutter Hanna, die von ihrem Ehemann mit dem überraschenden Plan konfrontiert wird bald in seine Heimat, den Iran, zu ziehen. Großmutter Hilde will den Umzug ihrer Tochter und Enkelin mit allen Mitteln verhindern. Hanna kämpft zwischen den Fronten um ihre Rolle als junge Mutter.