Ballad of a White Cow

In hardly any country the death penalty is carried out as often as in Iran. In There is No Evil, Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof showed what this means for the lives of those involved. Directing duo Behtash Sanaeeha and Maryam Moghaddam now made a compelling drama that not only depicts how the Iranian legal system functions, but also which position a woman has in it.

A year after her husband Babak's execution, Mina (Maryam Moghaddam) is called to court, where she is drily informed that her husband was innocent and was in fact wrongly executed. Still, it must have been the Allah's will, otherwise it could not have happened, the judge states. One day Reza shows up, claiming to be an old friend of Babak's. He has come to pay an outstanding debt. Though hesitant at first, Mina gradually lets Reza into her life.