Faghihe Soltani

Six families in different compartments of a train, moving through a rainy night. In a single, 145-minute take, the film depicts the families and how their lives are interwoven with each other. Vacillating between dream and reality, each story builds on the one before and leads into the next. Each destiny is influenced by the other one on board, and all hurtle to the same destination.

Mahmoud is a computer engineer, chemical warfare veteran with cancer. One night as they were walking down the street, they noticed that two motorcyclists had stolen the bag of a girl named Shiva and disturbed her. Mahmoud gets involved with them and…