It's Winter

The film is set in a poor outer district of Tehran. It is winter and everything is cold. A man loses his job. He can see no future in front of him. He decides to look for his chances abroad. He leaves his wife and child behind. Nothing is heard from him for a long time. Then a stranger turns up in the neighbourhood. He is a car mechanic and he is looking for work. Something starts between him and the woman left on her own. The telling moves without raising its voice and without reaching for easy feeling. What goes unsaid carries the most weight. What stands behind it is the state of a generation. Young Iranians who want to leave and do not know where to begin. Mitra Hajjar and Ali Nicksaulat appear in the eighty six minute film, an Iranian production Rafi Pitts finished in 2006.