While the teacher is faced towards the blackboard, one of the students makes some funny noises. The teacher can’t find the person who did that, so he decides to dismiss a group of students for one week or until one of them tells him who was the one that made the noises.

When a harmless case of classroom misconduct occurs, Abbas Kiarostami imagines two scenarios that might follow: snitching in one case, and a show of solidarity in the other. As adults reflect on this little event, their words resonate profoundly with the fractious atmosphere of revolutionary Iran.