Overview
Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Cast
- Said Mohamadi as Said
- Behnaz Jafari as Halaleh
- Bahman Ghobadi as Rebwar
- Mohamad Karim Rahmati as Father
- Rafat Moradi as Ribwar
- Mayas Rostami as Young boy storyteller
- Saman Akbari as Group leader
- Ahmad Bahrami as Marriage registrar
- Karim Moradi as Old man
- Hassan Mohamadi as Child