One Small Act of Kindness Ends in Tragedy

Directed by Ali Asgari · Starring Anahita Afshar, Nasrin Kourdi, Selena Moradi · 2020

While shopping in Tehran with her teenage daughter, a mother stops to help an elderly woman, and a single decision spirals into a mounting moral crisis.

A tightly controlled Iranian moral thriller where an everyday kindness becomes impossible to escape.

A mother and daughter are shopping together in Tehran when the mother stops to help an elderly woman. It seems like a simple act of kindness, until one decision sets off a chain of events with devastating consequences.

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