Amin Sayyar

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.

Where It Begins

Haaj Ebraam is a tailor who spends his days in his ancestral tailor's shop to earn the money for his daughter's wedding. One day, he gets a special delivery. In a letter, his father wrote to him that he has left him with magic buttons, their family heirloom. The buttons in the two jars bring good and bad fortune to the customers, but Ebraam shall not be entitled to intervene with the justice of the world, and he should not choose buttons for people's clothes based on his own judgment. Ebraam, however, soon gives up trying to carry out his father's order and takes over the distribution of the world's fortunes.