This movie is about a working class family living in Tehran. The matriarch of the family is trying to keep her family together while going through financial difficulties. The family is broke with only the mother and the oldest son working. The movie takes a real look at how the working class has to struggle in modern Iran. The acting was real and so where the scenarios but the movie left some issues unresolved. Such as what happens to Abbas, the oldest son and breadwinner, after he runs away from a drug dealer. We also never find out what happens to a next door neighbor's young daughter after she runs away from an abusive brother and gets arrested. I don't speak Farsi so I'm sure I lost a lot of the film's dialogue by reading the subtitles.
Review of Under the Skin of the City
