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Mina and Saeed live a stressful life in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Being a woman in Iran is not particularly easy and Mina sees a future for the family elsewhere. She wants to move abroad, but Saeed then invents a device that places the responsibility for the hijab where it belongs - with the men whose gaze women need protection from.

Narges Rashidi carries the film with a quiet, simmering desperation that makes the absurdity of her husband's invention feel painfully real. This sharp satire uses a ridiculous gadget to expose the suffocating social pressures of life in Tehran.