Vida Ghahremani

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marriage to an abusive tyrant ended in tragedy.

The film follows Mr. Shi, a retired widower from Beijing. When his only daughter, Yilan, who lives in Spokane, Washington and works as a librarian, gets divorced, he decides to visit her to help her heal. However, Yilan is not interested. She tries keeping an emotional distance but when this finally fails she begins physically avoiding her father. He confronts her about an affair with a married Russian man and she, in turn, lets loose about all the gossip she'd heard as a young girl about his alleged affair with a female colleague back in China.

A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.

A middle-aged couple travels from a small town to Tehran with their young son to visit their friends and their daughter. However, both families, to hide their true age, make their young son and daughter appear as young children. Despite this, the son and daughter gradually fall in love, and after a while, their love is revealed, thus exposing the pretense of the adults.

Khodadad, who is interested in gold, is expelled from the village due to his foolishness. A group of smugglers mistake Khodadad for their boss at the capital's train station because of their resemblance. They intend to kill a man named Mansour Khan. When Khodadad meets Mansour Khan and his daughter, he warns the daughter that the idle young men surrounding her are not good friends for her. Mansour Khan approves of Khodadad's behavior and promises to go to Khodadad's hometown and ask the headman to agree to his marriage with Gold. The smugglers plant a bomb in Mansour Khan's car, and after realizing Khodadad's resemblance to their boss, they tie Khodadad's hands and feet and imprison him in the basement of a building. Khodadad frees himself and, after saving Mansour Khan, traps the smugglers for the police.

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she is cast into prison for smuggling an antique.

In a southern port, two tribes are engaged in fishing. These two tribes have long had differences. Their dispute is about access to salt, which is absolutely impossible for one of them to obtain. As a result, despite much hardship and effort in fishing, due to the lack of salt to preserve the caught fish, their product constantly spoils before it reaches the market, which has led to numerous conflicts. Suddenly, two loves emerge. The roots of discord and hatred push these two loves to the brink of destruction, but ultimately it is love that, after years of conflict, brings the two tribes closer together.

An Iranian couple (Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mohsen Marzban) declare themselves political refugees after police detain them on their way to Cuba.