Charon

Charon

The distance that separated him from the dead begins to disappear.

25 min · Drama, Crime

In the desert outskirts of Tehran, a solitary man works for criminal networks, carrying and burying unidentified bodies. When he learns he has advanced pancreatic cancer, the distance that separated him from the dead begins to disappear. After one last job, he heads deep into the desert with his opium and the fragments of a buried past, preparing for his own passage.

Directed by Amirhossein Beik · Written by Amirhossein Beik

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