A rare role where Afshar plays a mother, the romantic subplot is a flashback to a doomed love affair. The tragedy is not betrayal but circumstance —a man who must emigrate, a woman who cannot follow. Afshar’s performance here is devastatingly quiet; she cries only once, but the entire film feels like an echo of that tear.
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