Elahe Esmaili, a filmmaker, is invited to join her parents outside the Iranian capital to help them move house and spend the Eid holidays as a family. One night train later, she arrives without a hijab to meet her loved ones. Under the stern gaze of the matriarch, sisters and nieces work together to empty the house, the fortress of their memories: wedding gifts, prayer mats and a few portraits of the Ayatollah. When Uncle Hossein invites them to an official family reunion, laughter and light-heartedness give way to solemnity - and head coverings must be in place. For the parents, it's a question of respect, or rather shame. But Elahe persists: she just wants to "be herself", and covering her head is no longer an option since the recent "Woman, Life, Freedom" revolution. Through its depiction of a family weekend, the coming together of three generations, confidences over tea, and a house being emptied, this film shifts the lines, with both small movements and big bursts of courage, and is dedicated to Jina Mahsa Amini.
—Anne Delseth, Visions du Réel