Film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's eponymous graphic novels about her life as a wayward girl in Iran during the 1979 revolution and what follows later.

17-year-old Adi lives in a remote, very conservative village. He is beaten up because he is gay. That he is, villagers find more worrisome than the violent abuse.

Ali, a reed cutter in Anatolia, refuses to be extorted by local gangsters. That means poverty, which also puts his marriage at risk.