Bijan Daneshmand

A celebratory story of a Brooklyn woman navigating her cultural identity and boisterous family.

Living amidst the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war, Shideh is left alone to protect her young daughter, Dorsa. When a missile hits their apartment building but fails to explode, Shideh learns from a superstitious neighbor that the cursed missile might have brought in djinns - malevolent spirits that travel on the wind.

A woman must take action after her husband is kidnapped while attending a religious conference in the Middle East and put on trial for espionage.