Yalda,A Night For Forgiveness

Maryam (Sadaf Asgari) is a young Iranian woman, sentenced to death for murdering her much older husband, Nasser. Though details of the crime remain ambiguous, the country’s law has placed her fate firmly in the hands of the victim’s daughter, Mona (Behnaz Jafari). In front of millions of viewers on live television during Yalda—a Zoroastrian celebration that marks the beginning of winter—Maryam and Mona discover that true forgiveness can be difficult when they are forced to relive their shared past.