Only in Iran can one expect a teenage runaway (temporarily taking shelter in a public park's restroom) to discuss sublime poetry (by the great Iranian feminist poet Farrokh Farrokhzad) with other women on the margins of society. Made in a fly-on-the-wall style, the film-maker (an actress herself) does not narrate or explain, she simply asks questions, positions her camera in this restroom at different times of the day, and captures female conversations. These conversations range from an account by a drug addict of her having kicked the habit, to a homeless woman expressing hope about her future. Some conversations are bleak, others risk becoming acrimonious, and yet others are plain and simple gossip about women these women know. Like Abbas Kiarostami's great film Ten, these conversations illuminate the problems of modern day Iran, but also show the viewer how women negotiate their way around these problems with considerable acumen, and yes, humour too.
However, there is no unifying theme and no single narrative that dominates, and some of the accounts are confusing. I feel slightly more intervention by the film-maker (in terms of explanatory slides at the beginning, for example) or tighter editing would have made this a more powerful visual document.