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In 1950s Tehran, seven-year-old Ellie lives in grand comfort until the untimely death of her father, forcing Ellie and her mother to move to a tiny home downtown. On the first day of school, Ellie meets Homa, a kind, passionate girl. But their happiness is disrupted when Ellie and her mother are afforded the opportunity to return to their bourgeois life. Now a popular student at the best girls' high school in Iran, Ellie's memories of Homa begin to fade. Years later, however, Homa's reappearance in Ellie's world alters the course of both their lives. As the turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.