A prisoner requests a leave from prison for his daughter's wedding, but the prison official sends an agent in private clothes to accompany him during his leave and....

A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

It is a humorous and entertaining story between two friends, one of whom betrays the other and takes his property for his own benefit. The coward is wealthy, and the other is caught up in daily expenses and has this conscience that