Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years.
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The people behind it
Behrouz Vossoughi
Sahel
Monica Bellucci
Mina
Caner Cindoruk
Young Sahel
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Akbar Rezai
Belçim Bilgin
Ebru (Female Pimp)
Arash Labaf
Son
Ali Pourtash
Beren Saat
Daughter
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Driver
Arslan Burak Bozdag
Villager
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