一部电影的力量究竟有多大?甚至可以使人牺牲生命?导演泰米妮米兰妮因本片遭伊朗宗教法庭以教唆叛乱罪起诉,直至国际名导科波拉等人集体连署上书政府高层,方获保释。而现实中的戏剧性政治嘲谑,亦如影片拍摄主题:原本生活无虑的法官夫人,因为先生奉命审理女政治犯的死刑上诉案件,开始面对尘封已久的过往,理想、自由与爱情,透过自白书与今昔岁月的交错叙述,不但揭开了过去的神秘面纱,也展开一趟政治的同时也是私领域的探险与革命。An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.