Ehteram Boroumand

Ghashang and Farang are two elderly sisters living with their sons Bahman, a film critic, and Vahid, a dentist, whose wife left him.

When a harmless case of classroom misconduct occurs, Abbas Kiarostami imagines two scenarios that might follow: snitching in one case, and a show of solidarity in the other. As adults reflect on this little event, their words resonate profoundly with the fractious atmosphere of revolutionary Iran.