October 21, 2016
If Shideh (click here) wasn't already feeling demonised enough. She's a
liberal-minded woman living in Tehran during the final years of the
1980s Iraq-Iran war.
She's lost her chance at becoming a medical
doctor due to her previous political activism, having put aside her
studies to raise her daughter Dorsa.
Now she is facing a
cloistered life as a dutiful homemaker. Her doctor husband Iraj has been
recalled to the army. He wants her to evacuate the city because of
missile attacks. But she would rather stick it out, making regular trips
to the basement with her neighbours when the air-raid sirens sound.
It turns out, though, that a missile through the roof is the least of Shideh's worries.
Something wicked this way comes. The pervading sense of fear seems to have conjured up something supernatural in the building....
