Shiva Gholamianzadeh

Saad, a young Moroccan illegal immigrant, is planning a perilous journey to Canada with Reza, his Iranian lover. In Montreal, Saad is called upon to save his beloved from certain deportation to Iran, where inevitable punishment awaits.

For generations, village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice, sets off on a harrowing quest to the labyrinth to kill the evil bull-god.

When Emma has to leave her picture-perfect life for a women's shelter, her unlikely friendship with a ragtag group of women pushes them all into a fight to take back their power.