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Tensions run high from the opening minutes of this film. A desperate man in Tehran speaks to the camera: "Im not sure if, tomorrow, Ill be dead or alive." This is Sahand, who has been in a long-term adulterous relationship with Leila, despite Irans threat of the death penalty for infidelity. Now, the couple is fleeing the country with Mani, their four-year-old love child. Danish documentary filmmaker follows the family as they go into exile in Turkey and then enter United Nations bureaucratic limbo. They have the bad luck to start their journey in 2012, just as the Syrian Civil War is creating a mass wave of refugees; their case is pushed further down the list. Sahand and Leila are sympathetic and compelling figures on screen, keeping control of their negative emotions, as many parents do with children around. But they are quick to display joy, as revealed by the films small moments: a birthday party, buying a bicycle, getting a job. As the years go by, their fate rests on whether they have the right paperwork: paternity test results, divorce certificates, and evidence of persecution. We gradually peel back the layers of their complicated past.
Sahand
Self
Leila
Self
Mani
Self
Ebru Salcioglu
Self, psychologist
Halil Dönmez
Self, lawyer
Mrs. Tulay
Self, Yalova Municipality clerk
Kuzey
Self
Hüseyin
Self, landlord
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