A mother's courage, hardship, and love, in times of war. In 1988, during the Iran-Iraq war, Gilane escorts her pregnant daughter, Maygol, from the relative calm of their village, Espili, into war-torn Tehran to search for Maygol's husband, Rahman. The journey is arduous and what they find when they reach the capital is dismaying and frightening. Fifteen years later, as another war begins in Iraq, Gillane is at home caring for her son Ismael, who suffers from epilepsy, a byproduct of war. As she cares for him, she hopes for a visit from the doctor and from another daughter, Atefah. "Better be a dog than a mother," she says.—<[email protected]>

The year is 1988 and Iraqi bombs are falling on Tehran in a bloody chapter of the Iran-Iraq war known as 'The War of the Cities'. In the middle of the conflict we find widow Gilaneh, who has assumed responsibility for her son and pregnant daughter after the death of her husband. When her son-in-law abandons his military post, Gilaneh must venture into the very heart of the capital to find him, and as she is confronted at every turn by the horror and hopelessness of war, she comes to dread that this will not be the first bloodshed she will witness in her lifetime.—IMVBox.com