Afghan Hound

Ziba is an upper-class housewife in today's modern Tehran. Unable to relate to her environment or to her alienating life, she lives within her repetition unable to express to those around her what is wrong. But one long summer day, Ziba finds herself in an unexpected situaiton in the company of people unknown to her, confronted with her own choices and indecisions. Not a character portrait per se, this film works as a visceral metaphor of the general state of oppression and silence in Iran today. —Anonymous Thirty-eight year old housewife Ziba Amini lives an upper middle class life in Tehran with her husband of fifteen years, Farhad Amini, and their adolescent daughter, Parisa Amini. Although she has just started seeing a therapist, Ziba can't truly admit to herself that she's not happy, and and such can't express why she is unhappy. She goes through her day to day routine with a certain detachment. As Ziba and Farhad are about to drive to the Caspian Sea for a short vacation, Farhad has to make a stop at one of the apartment building he owns and manages to deal with some business. In the process, the two get separated, with Ziba stranded at the apartment building while she waits for Farhad to come back to pick her up. While she waits, she ends up spending time with some tenants, primarily a middle aged man named Hossein, and his teenaged daughter, Fariba. This time demonstrates the differences between her life and those of people like Hossein and Fariba, which may only exacerbate Ziba's problems as she cannot relate to what they are experiencing. —Huggo