An extraordinarily vivid look inside post-revolutionary Iran, tracing Iranian journalist Camelia Entekhabi-Fard's surreal experience growing up in the turmoil of revolution and the Iran-Iraq war. Pushed into morally and emotionally troubling friendships in order to survive, Camelia eventually finds that she is giving herself up into an unconditional relationship with the Iranian chief interrogator. Only after she has successfully fled Iran can she confront what she has been through with the older man.