Olfat is raising her children in hardship. She has one daughter and one son called Yonos who works in Kerman copper mine. One day, she finds a note at home with this massage "My friends and I are going to enter the war as soldiers". After reading this note, Olfat and his friend's parents got worried about their sons. When operation Valfajr failed, they received news about Yonos's friend. Olfat is waiting for her son too. As she finds out that the Iraqi radio announces the Iranian captives' names, she ties a radio on her back and carries it everywhere.
Acting
Merila Zarei's face holds entire wars without speaking.
Direction
Narges Abyar finds poetry in waiting, in silence, in radios.
Sound
The crackling radio becomes a character—hope and dread in static.
Director
Narges Abyar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Operation Valfajr 8 was a real 1986 Iranian offensive; the film captures how families experienced war through absence, not presence.
Director Narges Abyar based this on real mothers who carried radios during the Iran-Iraq war, turning their bodies into antennae for hope.
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