Her name is Sadira and by the end of the day, she and Farrin are friends. The secret activites of her parents and her mother's attitude that those who support the Revolution are low-class rabble have left Farrin not just without any friends, but really disliked by Pargol, the power-weilding class monitor, who would like nothing better than to get Farrin in really serious trouble.īut then one day, Farrin hears beautiful music at school and discovers a new girl playing a santour, a forbidden instrument. Farrin's family can afford many black market luxuries like alchohol her father is a successful businessman, building luxury homes, hiring illegal Afghans to do the building for little money and having them deported if they give him any trouble.įarrin attends a private school for gifted girls. Later, when the men join their wives there is dancing and alcohol, both illegal in the new Iran. On the first Monday of each month, her mother hosts a Bring Back the Shah Tea for Ladues of Culture, whose goal is to bring back the son of the Shah, since the Shah is already dead, and remove Ayatollah Khomeini. For 15 year old Farrin Kazemi this meant living a lie. It's 1988 in Tehran, Iran, nine years after the 1979 Revolution that sent the Shah of Iran into exile and the country's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, became the Supreme Leader of Iran.
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