Khosro is sent from the president's office on a fact facing mission to shiraz.
His mission is to hear the complaints of a female political prisoner, who is to be executed. Khosro's wife Fereshteh, being of the same generation as the woman in Shiraz decides to do something.
In order to help her, she writes her own account of the revolution which her husband has no knowledge of. Khosro, in his hotel room in Shiraz, begins to read his wife's memories the night before he is to see the prisoner. ..