本片包含的四个故事是道德力量与死刑这两个关键主题的变奏曲。这就提出了一个问题：在专制政权及其看似不可避免的威胁下，个人自由能在多大程度上得到表达？

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasises about ways to kill his father. When the man rents out the flat above to a young woman, with intentions of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to breaking point.