They are both on the run: the man with the dog he isn’t allowed to own because Islamic law deems it to be unclean, and the young woman who took part in an illicit party on the shores of the Caspian Sea…

Iranian master Jafar Panahi’s second film made while under house arrest turns his own plight into a moving, humane and universal story that is at once realistic and allegorical about isolation, unjust laws, and artistic creativity. Another cinematic triumph made under terrible circumstances.