A film in several episodes with Bijan Daneshmand and Mania Akbari, exposing some of the issues of men and women within the confines of traditionand family lifein Iran. Each episode is devoted to various life situations and displays a different form of male/female interaction. The placing of the actors in a moving vehicle or against a moving back drop signifies the movement of life despite all the obstacles in its way. The film deals with the roots of dependencies, limitations, power struggles and conflict that are the familiar stuff of life of couples in the Middle East. —IMDb
In this formalist-structuralist tour de force, dedicated to Kiarostami and modeled after his 2002 effort Ten, Mania Akbari, the star of the earlier film, unflinchingly juxtaposes the hidden fears and desires of modern women in today's Iranian society against those of their male counterparts. The finest, most important debut feature by an Iranian female since Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple.