Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.

Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.