A finely observed portrait of late-in-life loneliness, longing and hope, this work is characterized by excellent photography and naturalistic pacing. Its poignant, humorous, and poetic tone is extremely appealing. Seventy-year-old widow Mahin lives alone in Tehran. For the past thirty years, she has seemed resigned to her circumstances. Suddenly roused from her complacency, she asserts her compassionate spirit and newfound boldness both in a political incident into which she inserts herself and in a romantic situation that she engineers. The strictures of contemporary Iranian life form an inescapable backdrop to this sensitive tale. And Mahin's plans, which appear to succeed beyond her expectations, result in an evening that she could never have imagined. Directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha are masters of the ironic twist.