Baran, a Kurdish independence war hero, accepts a position as police commissioner in a lawless village at the borders of Iran and Turkey. There he meets Govend, a young woman who has come to work as the teacher in the newly opened school despite her twelve brothers’ hostility to the idea.

A quietly anarchic humor pervades this Kurdish western about a lawless region left in ruins following the fall of Sadam Hussein. Starring Golshifteh Farahani, My Sweet Pepperland is a rambunctious tale of love and retribution, where the fight for law and order constantly rubs up against chaos.