An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal
of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's
wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read
when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the
revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she
leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group,
avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh
Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the
hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman
facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
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