M for Mother

Movie · 1h 53m

Starring Golshifteh Farahani, Hossein Yari, Jamshid Hashempour, Sahar Dolatshahi

What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father does not want to have a disabled child, but the mother insists on going through with the pregnancy.