The playful presentation of the opening credits signals the complex interweaving of art and life in this profoundly insightful film. At times, it is difficult to tease apart artifice and reality. The newlyweds portrayed in the first scene prove to be actors in a movie being shot in a reclusive artist’s home. She has reluctantly agreed to this intrusion into her private space because she needs the money generated by the rental. Her resentment and sense of alienation gradually give way to fascination, as she finds herself inexorably drawn into the process of the film's creation and into the lives of the actors and production crew. They scramble to devise a schedule, to improvise solutions, to reconsider approaches. Doors and mirrors ineptly hung, carelessly left open or accidentally broken contribute to an extended poetic contemplation of public and private personas and lives. Similarly, a wedding photo placed askew and the unnamed homeowner's cherished, unfinished portrait by her late father that leaves her without a mouth prompts consideration of projected and internalized self-images. The chaos that descends upon a home that has known "no parties, no visitors" transforms it into an unsought reprieve from solitude and a welcome source of community. Director Farshad Hashemi's exquisitely nuanced and compassionate work will reverberate long after you have left the theatre.