Millions of Afghan men and women live in Iran without permanent legal status or protection. Sixteen-year-old Soraya suffers domestic abuse as well as the inability to freely decide her own future.
Soraya documents her daily life and fears on a mobile phone, capturing her attempts to escape to Europe to reunite with her mother, as well as the bruises left by her violent domestic partner. These intimate recordings are later transformed into a cinematic narrative from afar by director Mehrdad Oskouei. In her visual diary, Soraya also captures moments of fleeting freedom through singing, dancing, and art. Her artwork—featuring recurring motifs of a fox, a pink moon, and a clown—becomes the film’s central visual language, allowing her to express, in her own terms, the injustices, economic dependence, and gender inequality she faces.
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