The Seed of the Sacred Fig

In Tehran, during the 2022 protests, Iman (Misagh Zare) is promoted to investigating judge at the Revolutionary Court and brings home a pistol for protection. Then the gun disappears from the apartment, and he turns on his wife Najmeh (Soheila Golestani) and daughters Rezvan (Mahsa Rostami) and Sana (Setareh Maleki). Mohammad Rasoulof sets the family's fear beside real footage of the streets, and each new rule Iman imposes puts the household closer to breaking.