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Ziba and three of her prison cohorts, recently released from a Tehran prison, settle in an out of town doctor's house posing as house sitters and embark on a get rich quick scheme. They plan to mug the lecherous men who give a ride to ladies waiting at street sides for a pickup, which was- and is, to some extent, now- how some prostitutes found work back in the time in Iran. The film portrays the characters as well as the social origins of these men, and as it progresses, explores the backgrounds of these women.

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Top billed cast

Mahnaz Afshar
Ladan Mostoufi
Bahareh Afshari
Elsa Firuz Azar
Akbar Abdi
Reza Attaran
Hamed Behdad
Ahmad Mehranfar
Maziar Lorestani
Mehdi Faghih

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