Nezhad Ekhtiar-dini

Nezhad is fourteen years old and both of his parents have passed away. He is forced to leave school and take care of the family. To earn a living, he decides to smuggle goods across the Iranian-Iraqi border with his mule. One day, however, the mule breaks a leg.

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.