"since I got on this bus, I've forgotten where I am why I'm sitting here, or where I'm going" "my face is burning my head's vessels ache because of fever" "I'm sure I'm not at that bus as I'm writing these slowly, I become aware of my surroundings" "empty aisles with series of metal shelves the only things that are around me" "I'm trying to understand where I am right now these are the aisles of the place I work in" "The place I'm always in" "Hey Taghavi, where are you?" "what?" "it's been half an hour that the car is waiting outside and I'm looking for you and here you are, dreaming what do you want?" "entrance permit" " hello!" ", I'm telling you the pickup is waiting outside - okay, go put that list on the table" " I'm coming - come quick okay" "are you still sleep?" "!" ", hurry up" " here - not this one, that one - take it what were you writing?" "do you write poems, oh poet!" "Don't touch them with your callousy hands stand by the car, I'm coming" "quick" " Hi" " Hi" "Go, it's done" " you haven't gotten well yet?" " no" " Mehrieh Ebrahimi - excuse me" " she works in service section - poor woman, she's got orphans to take care of - she's got rent to pay too, who's gonna take care of her" " it's the layoff list and some who have retired - see if my name is in it too?" " Hosseini Akbari is on the list too?" " yes, poor guy came here yesterday..." "Mrs. Taghi nejad!" "Mr. mohamadzahed" " Mr. Mohamadzadeh - yes look ma'am, if you want to complain, go to the Torabi's office it's out of my hand, they gave me a list and I put it up on the wall" "Since this morning You've been driving me crazy with your complaints" " when did I complain?" " what is it then?" "look at this" "Why did you take the list off?" "Give it to me my name is neither in the layoff list nor in the retired list what does this mean?" "it means they haven't made a decision about you yet." "in a few days, they will, that's it" " people, it's out of my hand, believe me - what are we supposed to do now" "Farideh, for God's sake, Don't fret." "nothing has happened yet be thankful to God that your name is not on the layoff list" "Farideh!" "what?" "why are you looking at me like this?" "I won't drop you" "[here without me] [here without me] based on the play "Glass Menagerie" by "Tennessee Williams"" "Fatemah Motamed-Aria" "Saber Abbar" "Negar Javaherian" "And Parsa Pirouzfar" "screenwriter and director:" "Bahram Tavakoli" " aah - why don't you come, mom?" "I'm coming" "your film magazines are scattered everywhere again I've told you a hundred time to gather up your stuff" "Take this, my dear why are you playing with your food?" "Eat it" "I don't drink orange juice!" "it's not good for me, don't insist!" "not that you ate those turnips I made for you without making "Eww" sound" " what's wrong with you?" " huh?" "why do you eat your food so fast?" "chew your food, so you know what you're eating after the tenth or twentieth times of chewing you know what you're eating you get stomach ache by eating this fast and then you will start whining "oh my stomach!" ", my bowels!"" "and you don't notice how much I care about you this is how you cover yourself, you have a cold half of the year did you eat your turnips today or not?" "no" " what's wrong with you?" " nothing" "I'm trying to eat my food and it's like you're recording every move I make you keep talking about stomach, bowel and chewing and that makes me lose my appetite will I get stomach ache?" "to hell with that so, you're not eating anymore, huh?" "no, I won't" "thank you where are you going?" "I was bored today so I made jelly, it's in the kitchen with the fruits you're the house lady, you don't let me be your servant?" "!" "huh?" "my dear what are you saying mom?" "I'll bring it myself after you get married you'll have time to cook, to sew, to take care of the house a girl at your age should enjoy her life when I was at your age, your grandpa and I used to go to the villages near the Sanandaj, what great summers, they would liven you up" "I had so many suitors one of them was a sugar merchant in Iraq one of them was from the north, he drowned in the sea while he was asleep one of them was living in the kurdistan's villages, right?" "The one who had so many shopping malls what did he left for his wife?" "he didn't get married after I rejected him so the only goof-off was our father?" "no?" "don't talk about your father like this ok" "it's better not to talk with full mouth how about not talking at all?" "even better even better" " darling, how's your miniature flower class?" " it's fine" " do you like it?" " yes thanks god you like it one should know some kind of art someone might knock on this door at any moment" "I don't want to give them a servant, I want to give them a Lady aha, not that every night someone knocks on this door and comes in enough, don't be rude nobody is allowed to talk until we finish our dinner" "these movies have ruined his brain, it's all because of these movies mom, you're talking right now" "they don't let me work overtime given the situation I'm in" "I'll cover for you and punch in your card my overtime's hours are in the onion room it doesn't matter to me I'd stay wherever it is you said you couldn't work overtime and I thought this way you can take care of your guests too" "don't call them guests, call them Yazid's troops everyday one of his relatives here and there is nobody else but us to host them" "They're swarming all over us so, we have a deal?" " if you don't punch in my card and Torabi finds out, I'm in a big trouble - don't worry" " count it - you did it yourself" "Sara, don't you ever think that just because I'm covering for you for a few nights I'm asking you for money, I just borrow it from you" " no problem, don't forget to punch in - ok" " I've put walnuts for you in the locker don't forget to take them too - thanks you're not coming?" "you go, I'll come in a moment" "your order is ready thank you" "don't forget the discount it's the best quality" "please wrap it we don't wrap here" "Then give me that scotch tape" "It's not enough ma'am" "Don't haggle sir, thank you very much" "Yalda" "Yalda" "Where are you?" "Yalda" "Hi mom" "She locked herself in the bathroom again!" "I've been in a hundred place since morning, I'm exhausted I wish I was dead" "What's happened?" "You don't know what's happened?" "!" "I wish the ground would swallow me up because of what you do" "Come out of there!" "I told you to come out!" "Hi" "Hi" "It's all my fault" "I spoiled you, I had it coming How old are you Yalda?" "You don't know how old I am?" "Yes, I know, but I thought you've grown up But you've become like children" " What's happened that made you so angry?" " nothing!" "I've become your servant, working all day long so you could lie to me" " Don't be angry, mom - okay, I'm not" "Not anymore how silly I am that I've bought these shoes to give you as an end of term gift" "I thought my girl had learned something" "I thought if somebody knocks on this door, My girl would have had something against the technical diploma of the boy" "And I would tell them "here it is, my daughter's art diploma"" "Where is the towel?" "I thought since your course is over today It wouldn't be good to pick you up empty-handed" "Where is this freaking towel?" "I went to your class with so much enthusiasm And I said "ma'am, please call my daughter"" "And she says "we have nobody here with that name"" "I told her "ma'am, my girl has been coming to this miniature flower class for 3 months and I've paid her tuition completely"" "And today is her last day" "She went through the list of the names and then told me "yes, her name is here, but she's come only 3 sessions"" "I told her "what do you mean?" and she said "in her last session She was supposed to explain about her work, she got into a panic Sweated with fear" "And vomited on the class's floor And after that she didn't show up again" "Open the door!" "I want to know if my daughter is not able to speak a few words In front of 10 people?" "!" "Where were you all these times you weren't in the class" "I was walking in the street" "So Just because you didn't want me to find out, you walked In the street three times a week for two hours?" "I told you before I panic where there are A lot of people" "What do you want to do for the rest of your life?" "Sitting around at home talking to Your glass animals and cleaning them" "You just got stressed out in one place, you want to mourn For the rest of your life at home" "I've seen unmarried girls who've been a burden to their families all their lives scolded by their sisters-in-law" "But you are so beautiful What should I do for you Yalda?" "Mom, I like somebody" "I mean I like a boy" " You're trying to make me mad again?" " no" " You've become like your brother?" ", you probably want to say you've fallen in love With one of the pictures of these magazines - no" " I'm telling you he's a real person - a real person!" "A real boy" "You don't even go out of this house Always lock yourself in in that room" "Well, not that I know him very much But I think he's a very good boy" "My dear" "You're blushing" "My sweet daughter" "So you weren't walking all alone in the street The days you were skipping your classes" " no, I haven't seen him yet" " You haven't?" "!" "No, I just heard his voice" "By phone?" "Not that I talk to him myself I just heard his voice, that's it" "I can't make any sense of what you're saying, Yalda Why do you mean?" "one day He came here with Ehsan, he's a friend of Ehsan" "I didn't came out of the room, I just heard their voices ...Ehsan had brought some stuff with himself..." "He had written some stuff, and he was reading them Then suddenly started singing" "And then Reza told him, you should say these in poem And I will sing them later" "Then they started recording their voices on a tape as a keepsake" "So his name is Reza?" "Mom, I wasn't eavesdropping" "They were speaking loudly, I don't want to talk about it anymore" "Why?" "I don't want to, I don't want some boy comes here and finds out I'm cripple" "I swear to God Yalda if you call yourself cripple again I'd hit you on the head with this to make you nuts too" "People have all kind of faults and flaws and they Cover them in a way like they're nothing you have all these good qualities, and you only worry about what?" ", that you shuffle you're feet?" "Come and take these too" " You have his song tape?" " His what?" "The tape of his voice" "You have it?" "The tape... no" "Yalda, do you know what bothers me The most at the times when we're expecting guests?" "This crappy couch really bugs me It embarrasses us completely if someone comes in, he'd think he'd entered a junkyard" "Damn you!" "I'll change it one day" "It is not that bad" "Let me bring the food and then Tell me all the details" "That was the whole thing, I told you everything" "Sara, what's your opinion?" "It's the same price everywhere or is it cheaper in YaftAbad?" "You only want this model?" "Yes, I want it to be unique" "You're not a stranger, you know that I can't change my house" "But a couch is something that catches the eyes" " I want when this boy comes in..." " his eyes pop out of his head" "Don't be silly, I've seen a single couch too And it's really beautiful" "It's chocolate-colored with a lot of drawers under it For bed sheets and quilts and stuff, it could be a bed too" "Why do you need a bed in your living room?" "You can't tell your son-in-law to go out in the middle Of the night when he's watching TV series" "And you can't allow him to go to the girl's room When they're not engaged yet" "I need to have a place so I could tell him "please stay over tonight"" "Aw, nothing still happened And you've started to spoil your son-in-law" "Your son-in-law is like your son, no difference Give me that address" "I'll give you the address but please let it be between me and you only" "Why, is it illegal?" "No, look, you pay a small amount of money to the company And buy whatever cosmetics you want" "Then you call your neighbors and sell these Cosmetics To them With thirty percent profit" " It's a kind of marketing - why don't people buy these from the company directly?" "That's what I mean, if you give this address to others Then we'll have a lot of competitors, don't you want to Pay the first installment of your couch?" "I can't pay the full price now" "Then go buy the amount of 50 thousands tomans" "And you call your neighbors They'll Buy them with higher price" "If you only call Susan, she'll buy half of it" "With that face of her, she needs sixty different types of face powders And lipstick to be able to come out of her house" "Now Give me that address" "Would you Swear to your life that you won't tell anybody?" "Aw, Don't make me swear to my life for an address" " alright ,alright, I'll give it to you at lunchtime - thanks" "Kids, Sara made a copy of that song I really liked" "But please Don't laugh this is an old song Father" "Father" "I just realized you don't call me grandpa anymore" "I you needed a father, why didn't you come to me?" "Why should my son rely on Skiiper and not me?" "Yes, I'm your father" "Why didn't you come to those who really love you?" "You don't know what love means, it's just a ridiculous word to you" "You seems to have a good memory too What did you need in your life that I didn't buy for you?" "You can't buy love with money, you've paid one million dollars for these junks, do they love you?" "You think I bought them for who, for myself?" "this house My money, all of these, these are for you" "I don't want anything" "What an excitement these people have in their movies" "They cry, they laugh, they lose each other They find each other" "I don't know, they're living" "And look at us, wasting our time from morning to night In that stupid warehouse" "That useless stupid warehouse!" "That swamp!" "And look to whom I'm talking!" "You're not talking, you're yakking" "Look Ehsan, seize the moment What do you want right now?" " Right now?" " Yes, right now" " nothing - what do you mean nothing?" "You really make my sick" "Stop lying down, Come on, sit" " Lift your chair - don't, please don't bother me Reza, it has nothing to do with you I'm just sleeping so my blood circulate in my head" "You'll be more mixed-up if your blood reaches your brain" "Come on, sit my god" "Not that you know what you want" "Of course I know, a giant hamburger with French fries" "It's impossible to have a serious talk with you" "It'll take half a day or a little more or less for me to reach the Bandar" "They'll give me food there And a place to stay" "He said "no problem, I guarantee to get you across the border"" "Davood Najafi?" "!" "yes" "He guarantees to smuggle people across the border?" "!" "Your drink, Mr.Ehsan" "Well, People make progress, don't just look at us" "Hello" "I'm fine, how are you?" "At fast-food restaurant" " No, I'm with someone who is about to be passed across the border." "It's guaranteed of course - who is it?" "I called him a couple of times too" "Shut up, bastard" "okay" "Let's see what happens" "Keep me posted" "Yalda" " Do You know where mom has put my film magazines?" " no" "I'm sure she's taken them" "This is volumizer and emollient for the skin And you know what else is in there...?" "In it... well in its catalog..." "You touched my stuff again?" " There is calendula in it..." " I can't put a few things of my own in this house?" " It has the durability... the perpetuity..." " I'm talking to you, it's like you're not listening at all, huh?" " And it says "out of ninety people who have used this, each one of them has said to has become younger after using this product" - where are my film magazines mom?" "Hello?" " What do you want?" "She hung out - to hell with that" "I'm telling you those few film magazines of mine had nothing to do with you where did you throw them?" "They weren't a few, they were two hundred" "Two hundred is not a few?" "No, a few means one or two" "Besides, you've read so much nonsense about films And cinemas and that has made you crazy" "I don't want to pile up stuff that have made my son crazy in my house" "You have problem with that?" "In your house?" "Excuse me but who's paying the rent of this house?" "I'm working like a dog and all of a sudden this is your house" "Okay Ehsan, you're right, whatever" "You're always like this, everybody who's similar To you is sane, and everybody who's not is insane" "Watch your mouth" "Yes, you're calling the neighbors to sell them lipsticks, working overtime instead of your colleagues to collect money and buy couch" "Lest, god forbid the Mr. son-in-law sits on an old couch Someday" "I want to know if this girl goes anywhere except To the end of this street" "You're both behaving weird But I'm insane!" "I'm a weirdo Ehsan?" "!" "I said behaving wei..." "Why do you put words in my mouth?" "I said you're behaving weird" "Aha, but you that fool around in cinemas all day And toss and turn in your bed and speak in your sleep All night..." "And even couldn't get a promotion from that freaking warehouse In these three years... you are sane" "But I'm insane just because I sell lipsticks" "Look, I wish somebody kicks me out of that damn warehouse..." "I'm talking to you" "You think I'm in love with my job" "I wish someone hit me on the head with a crowbar when I'm sleep At night so I wouldn't have to go there the next morning to sign Entry and exit lists again" " Why are you acting like this?" " because I like to act like this" "Do I have to forget about anything I like because of Monthly salary of 300 thousand Tomans?" "I want to write You know I can write" "But your lives don't let me move." "I feel stifled" "Where?" "To the cinema" "You're lying" "Yes, I'm lying" "I'm going to the opium den, I'm a junky And I'm going to commit some crimes" "Didn't you know that mom?" ", I used to hide a machine gun between the Pages of my magazines and I used to kill people till morning" "And then go back to the opium den in the morning" "And to make myself incognito I put fake mustache" "Eh, where is my fake mustache, mom?" "Now you see, now you know why I speak in my sleep" "Because a mafia group is after me and they want To blow up our house with dynamites" "But it's okay, after we die and so that we wouldn't get bored, you can tell the story of your twenty suitors and tell us how much they have left for their wives" "In those villages of Kurdistan" "Let me tell you something mom" "One is better to be dead than being insane while thinking he's sane" "Hello, Nahid, I don't know what happened the phone cut off My hand touched it or something" "That's okay, I looked around and I found its catalog" "I read in it that it has sixty-nine percent brightness And seventy-nine percent skin age-reducing quality" "Yalda yes" "Would you go to buy cheese or should I go myself?" "I'm coming, I'm getting ready" "I'll be late" " Hurry up" " I'm coming" "Didn't the doctor tell you not to walk with short step, Walk with long step to loosen up your legs' muscles" "But he's not a doctor mom, it's just you who call him a doctor" " If you had paid 10 thousand Tomans for his fee, you Would've called him a doctor too - talk with her" "Watch out for the stairs, be careful not to fall" " hi - hi" "I wasn't feeling good last night I said something I shouldn't have" "Stop frowning mom" "Give me a kiss" "Don't be silly, get off!" "Why did you say you go to the opium den at night?" "I was in a bad mood, I said something without thinking I was talking nonsense" "Do not ever make a joke about you being a junky" "Okay, I don't know why you're always expecting that My father's illness afflicts me too" "Come, drink some milk, it'll soften up your bowels" "My dear" "You've had problem with that since you was a kid" "Sit, I want to talk to you" "Look my son, you know your sister very well" "She doesn't nag or complain or something like that" "She keeps all her sorrows to herself" "I'm a mother, I can see it in her eyes" "I went to her room the other night I saw her Crouching and crying in the corner of her room" "Why?" "I asked the same question from her" "I asked "why are you crying?"" "She said "for my brother"" "For me?" "She said "Ehsan is wasting away in this house"" "who said that to her, mom?" "She thought about it herself My child has been always sensitive" "And I've always had problem with my bowel movement!" "Get to the point" "Get up for a moment mom" "I know you're wasting away in that warehouse" "You want to do so many things, you want to go everywhere You want to buy so many things" "It's a necessity at your age, but you can't" "I'm a mother, I understand that You're chained to me and your sister" "What can we do?" "I can take care of myself" "But what about your sister?" "You can't do anything as long as she's not settled" "You can't go anywhere" "You're stuck with your sister, you're stuck with Yalda And all she do is going to the grocery for ten minutes each day" "And then coming back to the house reading magazines and keep Cleaning and washing her glass figurines" "Ehsan, if you don't help your sister, we will lose her" "What should I do for her, mum, What should I do?" "Nothing, just don't be so indifferent" "I'm late" "Do something for your sister" "There isn't a suitable young man in that big warehouse?" "No, there isn't" "There is if you care about your sister's future" "Stop it, mom" "We don't have high expectations An average person like yourself would be good" "He just shouldn't smoke, that's it Invite him to our house one night" "What's wrong with that?" "maybe Yald don't like him" "And if she do, that's even better" "You'd Be introducing two young people to each other" "I'm going to change the couch, that doesn't mean The house will be like a palace after that" "But at least it will be less crummy And when this boy comes, it wouldn't put him off" "Listen to me, for your sister's sake" "mom" "hi" "What's happened?" "What was wrong with Ehsan?" "We had a fight over the color of the couch" "He says "why do you want to pay so much money for a chocolate-colored couch"" ""Let's buy an almond-green one"" "But Chocolate-colored is much nicer" "You expect good taste form men?" "!" "Take this to the table, dear" "How's your leg?" "It's fine" "I want to record, sing - let's start over" "Day and night with passion and joy, like a love bird my heart flies" "You don't understand" "You jerk don't understand" "You see that he's not in a good mood..." "Why do you Keep making fun of him Can't you see ..." "Get up, what's happened to you?" "I'm fine" "Get back your work, don't stay here go" " You too go wash your face" " I'm fine" " Look, look at his face - stop it" "Sissy" "Jackass" " You want me to beat your block off?" "!" " don't answer him, stop it - look at him, that jerk" " I'll..." " go inside" "Keep your head up, it may go to your eye" "Ouch." "What hurts me more is that This jackass hasn't even passed first grade" "He can't even read" "And he makes fun of my writings" "Ouch, what is this, it burns easy" "You're so touchy" "He's making fun of you because he's illiterate" "He just wants to pick on others So he forgets his miseries" "Why do you attack him?" "I didn't expect it from you" "I just couldn't stand it" "So, your artwork is ripped now?" "Read it, I want to know what you had written again" "Maybe he was right in making fun of you" "I had brought this rice for you" "The young woman kept trying to assuage her middle-aged sister She tried to talk to her and made her aware of her surroundings" "But her sister looked at her the way crazy people usually look She kept saying somebody is going to take her to a long journey" "The only thing She was talking about was about the type of clothes and necklaces she had decided to wear for this magical journey" "She was looking for her favorite purple-colored clothes" "And for her turquoise-colored necklace With delicate silver margins - mom - mhm" "I invited him" "Who?" "Didn't you say I want someone to knock on this door And comes in?" "And you invite that someone" "Well, yes, I invited him for dinner" "And he accepted?" "He wishes" "Ehsan, you're talking crazy again or You're serious?" "What crazy talk?" "!" "Didn't you say "for Yala's sake"?" "You seriously invited him and he's coming for sure?" "yes" "When?" ", if you're telling the truth" "Tomorrow night" "Oh god!" "Didn't you think I need to prepare for this" " Preparing for what?" "He's an easy-going type of guy - easy-going!" ", why didn't you call when you invited him?" "!" "And you're lying around here since morning And didn't say a word" "But it's okay, I'll take care of it" "I'll make to types of food, stew and soup And I don't make jelly, because I don't want him to Think that we feel intimidated by him" "Not at all, you're actually very calm!" "OH god!" "Ehsan!" "You're talking to the god or to Ehsan" "I swear to god if this boy comes here tomorrow and sits on This crappy couch I will be dying of embarrassment" "And in order to avoid that, I've paid The remaining of the first installment of the couch" "They'll bring the couch tomorrow" " really?" " yes" "Okay, so I'll take a tablecloth from Mrs.Shirazi And I will have some time tomorrow to clean the house" "My dear son, you've become so kind." "Drop your leg" " What's his name?" " Reza" "Does he smoke?" "No, he's not a junky" "Ehsan, the other day you went off without listening to me I was going to tell you that Yalda talked to me about one of your friend" "Invite him" "I invited the same person" "Did Yalda tell you something?" " No, I..." " did she talk to you?" "No mom, I've heard Reza's voice on tape from Yalda's room several times" "Do you think I don't understand anything?" "Ok, never mind how can you be sure he doesn't smoke?" "He's my friend, right?" "He would smoke in front of me if he wants" "If one wants to cover up something, he'd do it Just as you hide your smoking from me" "And it's clear that you didn't find out!" "Whatever, I don't want to give my daughter to a junky" "Giving your daughter to a junky!" "You've started the wedding already!" "You said invite him for dinner just one night" "And I invited him for dinner for one night, that's it" " how much does he make?" " his income is like mine" "So, it's not a lot" "Look mom, he's coming here tomorrow night But he doesn't know anything about Yalda" " You think I'm a child?" "!" " no, I'm just saying be careful" "I just hope he wouldn't be too handsome So Yalda would be able to pull herself together" "No, he's so ugly" "What?" "!" ", you mean we can't even show him to our relatives" "No, he's fine, he's average His face, his hair, his body, his future, his everything" "Average is good?" "Yes, it's good, average is good" "Yalda, dear, are the clothes dry?" "Yes, you want me to take them down?" "No my dear, I take them down myself" " mom - yes" "Look, About tomorrow..." "Take it easy on Yalda" "She's not like others, she can't do well under pressure" " What do you mean?" " I mean we love her so much that sometimes we forget she's disabled" "I told you a hundred times don't call my child "disabled"" "No, I know, it's just I look around myself" "She's not like other girls" "Yes, she's different from other girls" "Because she's innocent, she's a lady" "No, I know, I wanted to tell you something else" "She's kind of shy, timid She can't say a word in front of four people" "Her glassy dolls are all her life You can see it yourself, right?" "I wouldn't blame others if they call her "abnormal"" "How dare they to call your sister "abnormal"" "I wish all the girls be like your sister" "Ok, forget about these things now When will this couch arrive?" "Tomorrow" "That's all I wanted to hear, my dear" "Grandma used to say "God grants all your wishes If ask him at the times you are about to sleep"" "I have no wishes mom" "But I want the welfare of you and your brother" "You get married, Ehsan gets married" "Then, you hug your chubby daughter put aside your crutch in the yard" "And move across the yard for me" "And when I'm retired" "I'd stay one day at your house" "A few days at Ehsan's house" "Why do you treat us differently?" "One day at my house and a few days at Ehsan's?" "Well, because People would say she has son But she's staying at her son-in-law's house" "Our Girls belong to other families (an old saying)" "I'm so tired, mom" "Sleep my dear" "Throughout my life I always hated poverty" "This is the truth, my dear" "You have no idea how difficult it is to respect some People just because they are rich" "I can kill you with this club" " You still blame me for skipper's death - you know I can kill you with this club" " Oh my god, do you think I'd be upset if you do that - skipper and I were friends, why didn't you let us to continue Our friendship?" " You need to hear me out - but I don't want to listen" "I need to talk to you but you never let me speak I'm in love with you and it's worth fighting for my love" "Skipper isn't worth it, he wasn't a good person" "Maybe I'm not a good person too, nobody is good" "But, look, skipper is dead And I'm alive" " Maggie!" " Maggie the cat is alive" "I'm alive, why are you so afraid of hearing the truth?" "The truth?" "!" " Hello" " Hi" " One kilogram stew vegetables - okay, sure" "You can't select the good ones" "I didn't, I just put the bad ones aside" "Make it two kilograms please" " Thanks - thank you" "Yalda dear" "Yala" "What are you doing in there for 2 hours?" "Why are you so pale my dear?" "You're flustering me" "I'm doing what?" "Come and sit on this chair for a minute" "You've been busy preparing for something lately, you've Changed the couch and..." " It's like something is going to happen" " I don't want anyone see you like this" "You need to put something on your face" " Girls need to be beautiful - what is this mom?" "I told you before I can't wear high-heel shoes I'm not used to them, they hurt me" "I'd fell down with them Why on earth should I wear them?" "Let me be honest with you Because you're short, sweety" "Quick, Get yourself ready, Mr.Reza is coming any moment" "Reza!" "What do you mean mom?" "Oh my God" "I totally forgot to tell you that Ehsan has invited whom" "Reza" "You mean that Reza, Ehsan's friend in the warehouse?" "God knows I didn't tell him anything He found it out himself" "He came to me one day and said he has invited Reza" "What you did was so wrong, mom" "I confided to you" "I can't I just can't come out" "What do you mean you can't?" "You're not supposed to do anything" "Yalda" "I swear to god if you're going to act stupid and embarrass me I'll never say your name again" "Open this door" "You come out like a grown-up girl Say hello, eat your dinner" "We tell each other two jokes, narrate two stories And that's it, the party's over" "That's it" "Understand?" "I'm feeling sick mom" "I'm also sick of what you do" "But I swear to my life, I won't let you Let me down this time, Yalda" "Look, I don't tell you anything else" "But if you love your mother pull yourself together and come out" " Hi mom" " Hi, please come inside Mr.Reza, welcome - hi, how are you?" " Ehsan dear, why did you arrive so late?" " we had some work on the warehouse" "What are you waiting for Reza?" "Come inside" "I'll bring the tea for you in the patio" "Why in the patio?" "It's just because of the food's smell inside the house." "I'm opening the windows now" "Then I'll call you" " Yalda, get up and come out, I'm not joking with you - you're crushing my arm, mom" " You Come out and sit down in the living room without saying a word" " I'll scream if you don't let go off my hand" "Scream and I'll scream too Let's see whose voice is louder" "What happened?" "Why don't you scream?" "Your mother really went to a lot of trouble I'm not a stranger guest" "Maybe she likes to do that, it has nothing to do with you" "She just like the guest" "Who's this singer?" "I don't know" " Reza, I talked with the manager today, I said..." " what a great voice he has" "I'm talking to you, I told him I come to work until the end of this month" "Are you with me?" "Yes, that guy, Davood najafi The one who guaranteed to get you across the border" "Yes" "There are lots of Iranians oversees Working in field of movies and ads and things like that" "I'll go write some stuff for them And slowly something good happens" "I'll be better off" "How do you know that?" "Hum?" "I said how do you know you'll be in A better situation" "Any situation would be better Than the situation I'm in right now" "You don't seem have a common sense" "Thanks for your insult" " Ehsan, come inside, it's cold out there - my mom doesn't know anything about this" "Be careful not to blow it" "You're blowing it with your whole figure and you're worried about me?" "Let's go inside" "You go, I'll come in a minute" "I've been here before a couple of times But you weren't here" "I'm kind of busy" "And Yalda is always in her room doing research And study and these kind of stuff" "But tonight's dinner is made by Yalda" "Very thanks to her" "If I'd known you'd go to a lot of trouble, I wouldn't have come at all" "Don't mention it, to me you are like Ehsan" "Would you like tea?" "No, thanks, I just eat this tangerine" "Bon Appetite" "Thanks" "Please eat candy" "Sure, thanks" "Yalda" "Yalda" "Come here for a minute" "I'm fine, I'm okay" "You needed to start walking right now?" "!" "She was cooking since morning I think her blood pressure has dropped" "No, I think the carpet is rolled-up there She tripped over it when I was coming in I was about to fall down there too" "Right" "Hah?" "How did you get so tall all of a sudden?" "Huh?" "It's mom's fault, she has bought these Cinderella shoes for me She gets mad if I don't wear them, I can't even walk with them" "She gave you her necklace too yes" "Yalda, come to table and eat your dinner just as you do always, As if Reza is not here" "As if it's only the three of us ok" "If you are not comfortable, go to your room" "Reza is not one of those guys who gets offended by that ok" "Are you okay?" "Should I be worried about you?" "I'm fine" "Oh God, why on earth should we have power-cut right now?" "!" "Ehsan, go and see if the fuse jumped?" " we're so sorry, Mr.Reaz" " No, it's okay" "We can light candles You have candles?" " yes, Yalda, show Mr.Reza where the candles are - sure mom" "This is so embarrassing, I tried so hard for the "Fesenjoon" To have a nice color, and the power must go right now!" "Everything is embarrassing to you, How exactly does power-cut embarrass you?" "he is really a good boy, Ehsan He is so thoughtful too" "He's looking for candles with Yalda" " Did you check on the fuse box?" " I'll go" " Go now, all neighbors have electricity - mom" " excuse me, do you have match here?" " yes" "Did you find the candles" "Yalda found a few" "You usually don't put matches inside your pocket?" "No, why?" "Nothing, just wanted to know, that's all" "Come inside, Ehsan come Please come Mr.Reza" "You haven't paid the electricity bill yet?" "No, not yet" "Give it to me" "I'll pay it myself" " You're such a scatterbrain, you'll forget again, give it to me" " I'll do it myself Reza, I don't have it with me right now" "You are nuts" "hi" "Hi" "How are you?" "Sorry for the last night's trouble" "No, what trouble?" "My mom had made the dishes" "Is Ehsan at home?" "I was supposed to pick him up But he doesn't answer my calls" "He has left his cell-phone here" "Aha, in case you've heard of him can you tell him to call me?" "Sure, I'll tell him to call you" "Yalda, what's wrong?" "He's going to cut the tablecloth" "Hold on a sec" " How much is it?" " six thousands and eight hundreds (tomans)" "This is ninety in ninety as you said" "Mom, just one thing Reza came here" "When?" "Should I cut the cloth?" "After you went to the factory" "What did he want?" "Well, He was looking for Ehsan" "They were supposed to meet each other But Ehsan had left" "He didn't come inside, right?" "Inside?" "No, do you think I'm a child?" " Well, what did he say?" " He thanked you for the last night dinner and that's it" "So, he didn't believe you had made the dinner" "Yalda, didn't he say anything about you?" "Mom, I gave him the tape" "The one Ehsan has recorded with him" "Well, well, did you tell him you listen to his voice A hundred time everyday?" "No, you know what happened?" "He came up, I told him to come up" "I told him to come up because Ehsan had left his cell here" "I thought if you call him and he doesn't answer You'd get worried" "So he'd give it to Ehsan in the factory" "I thought about you Then I gave him the tape" "But I forgot to give him Ehsan's cell" "This thing is all mixed up" "What did I say the number is?" "Seventy eight?" "You want me to measure it again?" "Yalda my dear Your voice is shaking" "What should I do now?" "Let me measure the shelf" "Or do you want me to measure them all again Because they're all mixed up" "It'll be done very soon" "Yalda, what are you doing?" "I'll call you later, tell him not to cut them I'll call you" "How come you're here?" "Weren't I supposed to pick you up at your house?" "Suddenly I decided to come out" "And settle up with them" "I have to take this list You have pen?" "Next time you decide to go somewhere suddenly Take your phone too, so we can find you" "I didn't know they'd cut it off so soon Otherwise I'd paid the bill myself" "It wasn't a lot" "Remind to pay you up" "Where are you going now?" "I need a few more signatures and then it's done" "Where are you going after that?" "I don't know" " Day and night, with passion...are you recording?" " keep singing..." " don't record" " I want to record - okay then, let me start over - sing" "Day and night with passion and joy like a love bird my heart flies" "To every corner of this world In the hope that it may see the face of my love" "Light as morning breeze, it..." " Yalda - yes" " Where is that big tray?" " in the patio, on the bed" "Couldn't you sit there and drink your tea?" "No, because the Koko wasn't ready" " Is it ready now, can I take it?" " No, I still haven't add salt and pepper" " Oh god!" "Mom, there is crack in this glass" "Reza, you haven't eat anything yet Eat something" " I ate a lot, thanks - at least eat that candy sure" "75 minutes of the game passed, and still zero-zero draw" "Ehsan, get up and break these walnuts on the patio Before the downstairs neighbor start complaining about the noise" "I'll go in a minute, mom" "Get up now" " This is an extraordinary game,..." " give them to me, I'll do it - an opportunity for Chelsea and Goal!" " No way, I don't let you..." " why?" " No, you're a guest here - come on, let me do it" "No, I pick out the nut in a whole" " Ehsan knows how to do it, get up Ehsan" " I can do that too" " But it's a trouble for you - it's no trouble at all" "No need to go the patio I think our downstairs neighbors are not at home" "If you want, you can do it here" " Even better - thanks a lot" "Ehsan" "A yellow card for wayne rooney" "What's wrong with you again?" "What are you doing mom?" "Want am I doing?" "An opportunity for Manchester united..." "I'm so sorry to get you into this trouble" "No, it's no trouble did you see Yalda's glass figurines The previous time you were here? - no - there are a lot, the rest are in her room" "There are nice, right?" "Yes, there are nice" "These are small, you can't see them from this distance Come here a take a close look" "Okay" "She's been collecting them since she was a child" "There're so cute" "Please sit" "Look what a good taste she has" "They're shining" "She's polishing and cleaning them non-stop" "Yes, they're clean she has a great interest in them" "Ever since she was a child She'd love it when somebody compliments them" "If you want You can also tell her how much you like them" "Mm, You can ask her for example "for how long you have them?" ", Who gave you those the first time?"" "Things like that You know better than me" "Yalda Don't forget to tell her they're so clean" "You said it yourself they're shining" "Yalda, my dear, where are you?" "Mr.Reza wants to ask some questions from you" "Yalda" "Yalda, dear" "Chelsea is all defensive and Manchester is all attack" "Go inside, Mr.Reza has some questions He'd like to ask you" "I made him to break walnuts" "And I'm terribly sorry for that" "Sit down here dear" " You're welcome - thanks" " Why are you taking these?" " It's enough" "But I just broke four of them" "It's fine, four is enough" "But they're crushed, I couldn't pick them out in a whole It's okay, I'll pour them into the Koko" "These are so beautiful" "These are your favorites that you Washed them" "No, their turn for bath-time is every-other-day I don't treat them differently" "Yes, they'd complain if you do that yes" "They'd complain" "Then we'll have our work cut out for us to calm them down" "Right" "I was kidding" "Do you really think I speak to them?" "yes" "Well, I too..." "One would even speak to doors and walls when he's feeling down" "You speak seriously everyone does that each person thinks he's different from others" "But we are all the same" "You know, I don't go out at all I don't go anywhere, I'm always here" "Because these things make sound" "And people look at me in a way..." "That makes me feel bad, these crutches..." "I'm fine, I'm..." "I'm just not used to talking to people" "I'll be okay" "I'm fine" "Would you get upset if I laugh?" "At me?" "Hum" "Why?" "You make a big deal out of this small problem This is funny" "You don't go out because of the crutch's sound?" "!" "Look, if you want you can put aside the crutch" "Why shouldn't you go out?" "To tell you the truth, you're so different from the girls I know" "You know a lot of girls?" "Not that I know them completely" "But I see them" "Let me tell you something honestly" "Tell me" "One need to be so lucky to live with a girl like you really" " So, then you laughed a lot huh?" " well, yes,..." "I mean, no" "It happened so suddenly I started singing and Ehsan recorded" "Look at this" "You're like my sister" "This is my fiancée" "We're going to get married next month" "This one" "This" "What happened?" "Yalda" "Yalda" "Sorry, I have to go" "Eh, Mr.Reza, where are you going?" "Ehsan" "Where did Reza go?" "I don't know, he left suddenly" "And this girl's locked herself in" "Yalda" "Yalda dear" "Yalda, open the door" " Call this boy, see where he's gone?" " I'm calling him" " Yalda" " Yalda" "This door is closed too, what if something happened to her?" " What are you talking about mom..." " open this door" " Yalda" " Yalda dear" " Open this door" " I can't break it down - break it down" " Why are you yelling?" " what yelling?" "!" ", I want to know where my child is" " Yalda" " Yalda" " mom - yes dear" " Reza is getting married - let him get married, dear" "I want to go to the bathroom" "Ehsan dear" "You're going after Reza to ask him to come back?" "no" " where are you going, then?" " to the cinema" "Fuck this cinema that made you to make fun of Your mother and sister like this" "Mom, I didn't know he's getting married, don't start again" "Yes, I believe anything you say!" "You got to know all things about each other in these two years" " But you didn't know he's getting married?" " no" "You thought to yourself "let's just invite somebody To shut my mom's mouth"" "You didn't think about me, at least You should have thought about your poor sister" "I didn't know mom" "And besides, the one who doesn't think about Yalda is you" "I work like a dog all day Because I think about you and your sister" "And this is the result of your thinking" "Today, just today, I told you a hundred time" "I told you "don't do it, she can't bear it"" "You didn't listen, you did the opposite" "You said that because you knew your bastard friend" "These days, healthy boys don't get married to healthy girls Let alone the cripple ones" "Shut up, shut up your mouth" "I know what to do to your friend I'll make him pay for this" " why?" " why!" "Can't you see?" "Yalda my dear" " Mom, did Reza know we invited him so he proposes to Yalda?" " Yalda, darling" " He simply thought he's invited just for one dinner - come out darling, let's see what happened" "Mom, The one who needs to pay for this is you" "Because you're driving us crazy with your own behavior" " mom - yes dear" "I saw the picture of Reza's fiancée" " she's a good girl, ok?" " ok" "But Reza said he's going to break up with her" "He said because he and I are very suited to each other" "But I'm thinking about this poor girl, is it really fair to her?" "Darling, you calm down, you don't need to worry About her..." "Why is Ehsan looking at me like this?" "No, he's looking normal, darling" "Does he think I'm lying?" "No darling, why should you lie?" "Let's go, I'll make some food for you" "And then you eat them" "After that you sleep" "Mom, I take the phone to my room Reza is going to call" " I can't talk to him when Ehsan is listening" " I'll bring the phone for you" "I'll take it, I'll take it myself You know how we can save ourselves from all of these miseries, mom?" "You make a delicious food one night" "And then when the time is right" "We seal up all doors and windows" "And one of us opens the gas valve" "Then we sleep" "Before dawn, all our miseries are gone" "The young boy was thinking to himself how much He becomes like his father at those moments" "As if escaping from life was something he had inherited From his father" "He had a strange feeling" "He wasn't sure if he actually Had come out of that house that night or not 12 p.m. Bandar-Abbas Passengers Can board now" "Successive events were so simple and meaningless" "That he couldn't realize" "Which one is real and which one is just a product of his mind" "He had a feeling that he had lost something" "But he was sure about something" "That he would never come back to that house" "He would never sit down on that living-room couch And think about escaping" "This was the only thing that could have made him able to distinguish between reality and illusion" "Ahvaz, Ahvaz" "Yalda darling" "Yalda" "My dear" "What's happened Yalda?" "Oh god!" "Ehsan 12 p.m. passengers of Bander-Abbas Please board now Ehsan" "My dear" "Yalda is not feeling good" "Come back to us" "Ehsan, talk her into eating a few bites" "Okay" "I'll get time-off from work To be here for lunch" "I've also put a chicken outside In case she wants to eat something" "My supervisor has been very cooperative in these two-weeks" "It'd be great If we could work every-other-day" "This way every day one of us can be with her" "You didn't say anything to them about your sister's condition, did you?" "no" "I told them my mother is sick" "You did the right thing" "I don't want their tongues wag about your sister" "Ehsan, make her eat" "Come on Yalda" "Eat this" "Eat this my dear Yalda" "Yalda dear" "Yaldaee" "Wait, wait a second" "Wait a second, give that to me" "My dear, just a second" "Take this" "Take" "Eat this" "Just this one" "Look at me" "Look at me for a second" "Yalda" "Look at me, just this one" "You need to eat something" "For my sake" "Bravo" "It's okay, it's okay" "Don't eat if you don't like You know what I'm going to do?" "I'll get another one for you" "the dates of the every single day you got money from me" "Here it is, I wrote them all" "You got the money but you didn't punch in my card" "They're firing me because of the mess You caused" "And when I ask you why you did this to me" "Instead of saying you're sorry, you're barking like a dog" "I told you several times" "I need to take care of someone Who's not in a good condition" "That's the reason I couldn't cover for you in these few days" "I got a small amount of money from you Because I needed it and I'll give you back all of it" "And by the way, dog is you and your whole family" "What is going on here?" "why are you yelling?" "Get back to your work what the fuck you're going to do If I don't get back to work?" "my life has been a living hell for the past fifteen days and nobody said to me "how are you"" " What's happened?" " now you're asking?" "!" " Nobody ever said to me..." " If you don't get back to your work, I'll have the security Kick you out of the factory" "Yalda" "I'm talking to you, why did you pull this out of your hand?" "What do you want?" "Huh?" "You want to sleep here?" "Sleep here, so I could insert this into your hand" "Look my dear, this should've come down To the bottom" "Look where it is now It has to come down here" "This can't go on any longer You don't eat" "And you don't let this thing to be on your hand" "Look what you've done to your hand, Yalda" "I'm talking to you, you get weak this way You won't be able to stand on your feet" "Why aren't you listening to me?" "I'm talking to you" "Stop, stop it leave it out, stop it you're driving us mad" "Ehsan" "Do You have any cigarettes?" "no" "The other day when you were talking about sealing off The windows" "And opening up the gas valve Did you really mean that?" "No, I wasn't feeling good I said something stupid" "mom mom" "Wake up mom Reza called, mom" "He said he had broken up with his fiancée He wants to come here tomorrow and talk to you you and Ehsan" "Mom, I'm starving" "Let's go eat something together" "Ehsan" "Yes dear" "Did Reza's call wake you up?" "What?" "What?" "Ehsan" "What is it mom?" " What is it?" " Ehsan" "Yes, look mom, I'll go find a good doctor for her Tomorrow" " You just remain calm, okay?" " Ehsan" "Go and warm up your sister's food for her to eat" "Sure" "Ehsan" "hi" "I know you're upset with me" "I called last night to talk to you" "You called?" "Yes, your sister picked up the phone" "You called last night around one, two o'clock?" "Yes, look, I need to talk to you" "I can't do it here" "I couldn't talk to Yalda that day" "When I started talking about my fiancée She started crying and went to his room" "I was afraid to look at your face Given the state Yalda was in" "I thought you might think badly of me" "You know, Yalda is not like everybody else" "She's so sensitive" "So kind" "You rarely find people with these qualities these days" "During these two, three weeks I decided several Times to come and talk to you" "But to tell you the truth, I didn't have the courage" "The thing is, Ehsan invited me for dinner here one night was it a right thing to do for me To tell him "I like your sister"?" "How could someone say Such a thing to someone's face?" "It was my mother who had chosen my fiancée" "In her gathering with other women" "That girl" "I don't want to say she was a bad person" "She wasn't my type" "We weren't suited to each other" "That's why I broke up with her" "I want to ask for your and Ehsan's permission to marry Yalda" "If she wants of course" "mom" "Ehsan" "What's wrong with mom?" "She's not feeling good" "I told her I'm going to the grocery And she started kissing me" "I tell her "why don't you go to work" She says "I want to stay with you"" "Are you okay?" "Talk to her a little." "Look after her" "I'll go get some milk" "Did you see how better she it?" "I'll go with her" "If you want we don't tell her anything about Reza For now" "Huh?" "She's feeling better, isn't she?" "yes" "thanks" "You don't need to worry I'll take care of her" "Just as you do" "Thanks" "We had gone shopping for the wedding this morning" "I thought I'd be better to come back and prepare the food While they look around the bazar" "Congratulations" "Where did you get the news?" "Everyone in the factory knows about this" "Well... that nosy crowd" "Farideh, forgive me" "I got so angry with you the other day" "I had a fight with my husband that day" "I made a mistake You're like my sister" "My dear..." "All women chipped in and bought Yalda a wedding present" "And Mr.Torabi paid half of the money" " Who told them about Yalda's wedding?" " me" "Thanks a lot" "I cursed all of them that day" "Oh come on, take it easy One would curse himself when he's angry" "Mr. Torabi asked to see you In the factory" "I have to go to the factory of course I need to thank them" "Those poor people are not in a better condition than me" " Here you are - hi, congratulations - thanks" " Here, please eat," " Congratulations, thanks - congratulations" "Take two, she's retired and also her daughter's getting married Those who watch a movie twice, one after the other" "May seem strange people" "But you can't explain this feeling to anyone" "When the characters of a movie are still Living and breathing In your mind" "You can stare into their eyes while they're on the screen" "You can talk to them" "You can change their fates" "This way you can render reality into dream" "You can sink into the cinema's chair" "The moment the lights are off, a miracle happens" "The moment you feel there is no way to escape" "It's only important that you carry on with all your power" "Everything starts from this moment"