Say? If he complains you'll be charged.
Where's Somayeh?
Over there.
Go. I'll get her and come.
Let's go.
Yes?
He was sleeping. I locked the door to keep him in.
Even he would lock the door and leave me the key.
I saw that he does it so I...
He says you tied him to the bed.
I was afraid he would wake up and do something to himself.
I was afraid for him.
Why did you leave?
- So you should hit her? - Quiet!
Who said you could touch my wife?
Sir, get out.
They don't care about honour, I do.
- Don't be offensive. - Leave the room.
I want to file a complaint against this woman.
Write your complaint.
Take your father to the medical examiner. If he's hurt get a report.
What happens to our complaint?
Sign this and leave.
You have to post bail.
What for?
You're charged with murder.
I can't let you leave.
The blood money is forty million.
How am I going to post bail?
I live at my dad's. He has Alzheimer's.
If you don't you'll go to jail.
My father can't even come here.
He's sick.
Please don't.
I can't go to jail.
I've left him at home to come here.
I can't go to jail.
I can't post bail.
It's not in my hands. It's the law.
Wait one second.
What should I do with my dad?
I left him at home and locked the door to come here.
My child will come home from school.
Please. What are you writing?
Don't waste time. Go make your call.
I can't go to jail. I won't go.
Write what you want!
Go get an officer.
What for? Don't.
I'm begging you.
Please don't write it.
My life will be ruined.
Don't waste time.
Go make your call.
Hello, Termeh. I'm stuck here. They're keeping me tonight.
Don't worry. It's nothing. But you'II be aIone tonight.
Take care of the house. Take grandpa to the bathroom regularly.
Take care of yourself. I�ll call you tomorrow.
If you hadn't left dad wouldn't be in jail.
Your dad's not in jail because of me.
He hit a pregnant woman.
She came because you left.
How upset he was that I left.
He knew you weren't really leaving.
Did you tell him?
No, he knew.
Tell me the truth.
You told him?
Get your stuff. We're going to grandma's.
What about grandpa?
We'll take him too.
I have homework. I'm not coming.
- You'll be on your own... - Fine.
You'd better not call.
He doesn't even ask me to stay.
He doesn't refuse to divorce.
After having lived together for 14 years.
Dad!
What are you doing here?
Who're you with?
Didn't you have an exam?
No, it's tomorrow.
Who're you with?
Hello.
Shouldn't you tell us you're in trouble
so we can help you?
I didn't want to trouble you.
Silly man.
- Sit. - No, ma'am, he has a hearing.
Where's grandpa?
He's safe.
What are they saying?
"My child" as if their 18-year old son
was stabbed to death.
Did you speak to them?
You can't even speak to the man.
I told the wife, "You're young.
"You can try next year."
What happened?
- I have to appraise the house. - OK, go.
Hi.
- I'll be back. - We'll be here.
Thanks.
- Hi, Mrs Lavasani. - Hi, how are you?
Good, you?
- Sorry we're troubling you. - No, what trouble?
Is it true what they're saying?
Yes, unfortunately he pushed her and she fell and lost her baby.
So what should I tell them?
I don't know what they'll ask.
What if he asks something to his disadvantage?
I think you should tell the truth.
Please don't stand there.
Where was he?
Mr Lavasani was in the kitchen.
He didn't have a reaction to your conversation?
If he did I didn't notice.
How did you realise she was pregnant?
I think she told me.
You asked. Why should I tell you?
Her daughter was drawing a man and a woman.
She said this is my mummy and daddy.
I said your mummy's not that fat. She said she was pregnant.
So it wasn't from her appearance?
No.
Why are you lying?
You're a woman.
You can't tell if a woman is pregnant?
Even if I could tell
what difference does it make for Mr Lavasani?
This woman is his daughter's tutor.
They've fixed their story.
Why are you insulting this lady?
No one's talking to you.
When did I have the opportunity to fix my story?
I was here last night.
One thing is clear. Now that we are speaking,
that man over there can hear us, can't he?
I didn't hear you.
My mind is on other things.
Why would I listen to your conversation?
Do I have to swear to God?
Like you believe in God!
No, God is for your type only!
Open that window.
He is an honourable man.
I've been going there for a year to teach his daughter.
He's not like that.
Why should she hide her pregnancy?
If I knew I wouldn't have hired her.
Why did you hire her without her husband's permission?
Thank you.
You may go.
Thank you.
"During the Sassanid period, people were divided into two classes,
"the royalty,
"the upper class and the normal people."
"The regular class."
What did they ask you?
Whether your dad knew she was pregnant.
Forgive us for taking your time.
There's nothing to forgive.
Sweetie, how did mummy lose her baby?
She got a tummy ache.
Why?
Did daddy fight with her?
Why should he fight with her?
Maybe because she didn't tell him she was working in people's homes?
- Did he hit her? - My mum and dad never fight.
Then why were they fighting in your drawing that day?
You showed me.
They don't fight anymore.
No?
You're sure?
Yesterday he said he didn't know she was pregnant.
Now he says he didn't push her.
And you just stand there in silence!
Honestly, didn't you push me?
- I didn't say I... - Listen...
Don't repeat everything.
How far is the door from the stairs?
Two metres?
What else can have happened to her?
The corridor in our house...
- Look... - I am talking!
Don't talk. Just answer.
Quiet!
You've come here to answer.
I've a question for you to answer.
I want to ask him...
Ask me.
If you hadn't done anything wrong, why'd you come to the hospital
to see what was wrong with her?
I came out of decency.
Where was your decency when you hit her?
Was anyone there during the fight?
The neighbours were there.
I'll order questionings.
They're in it too just like the teacher.
He's been insulting me from the start!
Am I lying?
I'll determine who's lying or not.
You be quiet.
Sir, do you realise his ex-wife has posted his bail?
Oh my God!
Can someone vouch for you?
What do you mean?
A government employee or business-owner to vouch for you.
- No one. - Why vouch?
Because she's been accused.
Accused of what?
According to the complaint he filed...
Which he had no right...
She admitted that she tied his father to the bed and locked him up.
I explained to you why.
Her child just died.
Keep your voice down.
Aren't you ashamed? You call yourself a man?
I said quiet.
For God's sake, listen to us
for a change.
He is twisting everything.
He beat my wife and she had a miscarriage.
What could be clearer? Why are you being unjust?
Listen to us for a change.
If you disturb the peace, I'll send you to jail for three days.
I've lost everything. You think I fear jail?
You should fear God.
Mr Izadi, call an officer to arrest him.
Sir, for the sake of the Qoran, don't.
- No, let them come and take me. - Go out. Be quiet.
Why be quiet? So they can trample my rights?
Go out.
- Fine, I'm leaving. - Sir, come out.
Let me get my helmet.
Get out.
I worked for ten years with a cobbler.
They fired me and said get justice if you can.
I sued and went back and forth for a year. In the end, nothing.
They said go sit at home.
But this time I won't let it go.
This time it's different.
I have nothing to lose.
The problem is I can't talk like this guy.
I am hot-tempered.
Don't!
Hojjat?
I don't feel well.
Go sit there.
Let's go!
- What do you want? He's calm. - I have to take him.
I'm going to talk to the judge.
Stay there and don't move.
Sir...
I beg you...
Please let me speak.
Sir, he's stressed out.
I've been patient for the past two days.
I swear, he's been in and out of prison the past month.
His creditors put him in prison.
I begged them to let him come out.
I beg you to forgive him.
Sir, look.
Look at these.
Sir, can I ask you to please forgive him this time?
Sir, everyday he has to take these.
I swear I'm not lying.
Sir, since he was fired, he's been depressed.
He can't help it.
Sir, you're his elder.
Please forgive him.
Go tell him to find someone to vouch for you.
God bless you.
Don't leave the building.
No, I'll wait for him to come back.
Will you ask her?
She'll think it's because she bailed me out.
So let her...
Dad... please.
OK.
Promise.
Why do you promise?
Dad...
Yes?
You didn't know Razieh was pregnant?
No.
Why?
Nothing.
So why did you ask?
Last night, mum said you knew.
Where was she to see if I knew?
She said when you were told that Razieh's baby had died,
you didn't say anything.
You didn't ask if she was pregnant.
You didn't get surprised.
At times like this, people usually ask if she was carrying a child.
It was like you knew.
Your mum wants to turn you against me.
Will you ask her?
I can't.
Didn't you promise?
I'm sorry.
Which step was she on?
This one.
- This? - This one.
Take grandpa in. I'll be right back.
- Are you mad at me? - No.
You went upstairs?
Yes, I went to see Mrs Kalani.
What for?
I told her they are coming to investigate. To beware.
Beware of what?
Beware of...
that they are coming to investigate.
Is that not OK?
If she is to tell the truth, why should she beware?
Termeh...
Yes?
Come with me.
- I have homework. - Leave it for now.
Look, imagine that I am her.
Is this right?
When someone is thrown they fall straight.
They don't hit here and bounce off
and hit here and then turn and hit here and fall here.
Right?
If I'd thrown her from there
she should've fallen there on those steps
or she would fall straight on the railing.
She wouldn't fall like this.
lmagine you were thrown. Follow the direction.
- Then how had she fallen there? - I don't know.
I'm just saying she wasn't thrown on these steps.
Come and stand here.
- Why don't you tell them? - Forget them.
I want you to know. Go on.
Did he throw you in this direction?
No, towards the lower level.
You look.
This door doesn't allow me to even if I want to. It's not possible.
Where did you fall down?
- On these stairs. - Which step?
I think it was this one.
You think or you're sure?
I'm not sure.
Ma'am, this is where you found her?
I didn't see her fall.
When I got here, she was on that lower step.
Why don't you say anything?
Go show them how he threw you.
I was so sick I didn't know what happened to me.
Look, I'll stand in her place.
You in the doorway and push me as hard as you want.
I'm saying it's not possible to fall there.
Of course you won't fall.
A pregnant woman falls easily.
Then you come here. You choose who pushes you.
I'm saying it's not possible.
I'm saying if you push from here, she won't fall on the stairs.
What stairs? She says she fell on that step up there.
They all say they saw her on that one.
Ma'am, did you see her get thrown?
From up there I couldn't see the door
but I saw the stairs when she fell.
Can you show me where you were?
Maybe she got dizzy and fell.
How often did you use these stairs?
Why hadn't she gotten dizzy?
Excuse me.
That morning when I saw her here I asked her
why there was garbage on the steps.
She said she had gotten dizzy and dropped the bag.
Right?
- She took the garbage down. - You told me you got dizzy.
Mrs Kalani, hadn't she mopped the stairs that day?
The stairs were wet. Maybe she slipped.
You jerk! You made her slip.
Be respectful!
I'm polite in front of your family.
You'd better be polite, you shit!
Don't curse.
Take him outside.
Would his neighbours say anything against him?
If you can prove they're lying...
So you think they're telling the truth?
To hell with me for wasting my time here.
Excuse me.
Give us her backpack.
Here it is...
Don't you want your drawing book?
Sweetie, don't be upset
that I am fighting with your mum and dad...
Let me put it in your bag.
My mummy didn't take your money.
I know.
That's not why I was fighting with her.
Then for what?
I was upset because she left my dad.
She went to the doctor's.
Go on.
Take care.
According to the court's request, I'll examine him and write what I see.
Well, doctor, you can see he doesn't talk anymore.
Didn't you say he has Alzheimer's?
Yes but before this happened, he would speak a bit.
This is a doctor's office.
Prove that in court.
Does he have any bruising?
Yes, some.
What happened?
I'm not sure the bruising has to do with when he fell off the bed.
Don't run.
Mum, pull the window down. They're fighting.
Don't you see this is a girl's school?
I just have one question for this lady.
You're not allowed to stand here.
Take your fight to the police.
I don't want to fight. I just want to speak to her.
I have nothing to say to you. I don't know you or her husband.
- Then why did you lie in court? - What lie?
She knows what lie.
Ms Safaei, call the police.
Don't scare me with the police.
She's not involved.
Then why does she try to get my daughter to speak?
I did no such thing.
You are a teacher. Aren't you ashamed?
Why did you ask her if I hit her mum
and she lost the baby?
I never did.
You pick on a 4-year-old's drawing
and tell her her dad hit her mum and she lost the baby?
I didn't say that!
Why do you think we beat our wives and children like animals?
I swear on this Qoran, we're humans just like you.
I have nothing to lose.
Tell your husband not to make me do something crazy.
I'll wait by the door.
I'm unemployed.
I'll stand out there all day. Eventually you'll come out.
Come to the court and say you lied
or I'll get to the bottom of what's between you and her husband.
Shame on you. I've been patient so far.
So why are you defending him?
I told the truth.
- The truth? - Yes!
Place your hand on this and swear.
Why swear? What does this have to do with her?
I'm not scared. What do I have to say?
You said her husband didn't know my wife was pregnant.
- Yes. - Swear it.
I swear on this Qoran that day at their house,
her husband was in the kitchen and didn't hear what your wife and I said.
OK? Anything else I should say?
He's crazy.
Call your husband. Don't go alone.
No, I don't want him to know. I'm sorry.
Why are you all standing here?
Hello?
Hello, Ms Qahraei.
I had left you a message.
Can you please pick up?
The lady that took care of my dad,
apparently that day you gave her the number for a gynaecologist.
I wanted to ask you for that number to call
and see if she went to see the doctor that week
and what her problem was.
I would appreciate you calling me back. Thank you.
What do you want to do?
With what?
You want to keep this up? Everyday a new fight?
Why? What happened?
He went to her school today
and embarrassed her in front of everyone.
What did he say?
He screamed "Her dad killed my child."
How can she go back to that school?
Do you know what you are doing?
What I am doing?
He's making threats.
He wouldn't dare!
Termeh, go to your room.
What if he kills your child on her way to school?
What would you have me do?
Run off abroad with you?
To hell with abroad. Why can't you talk normally?
This is about Termeh
and the situation you've put her in.
I've put her in?
You have some nerve accusing me!
Who left home?
Who filed for a divorce?
You said leave whenever you want.
Why did you come back?
I didn't. I'm here because of her situation.
Her situation's fine.
- You have two choices... - Don't try to intimidate me.
What intimidation?
Either you clear up the situation...
- No, I know what to do. - Didn't you hit her?
Didn't she fall? Didn't her baby die?
Yes! I killed her child.
Why are you so stubborn? Pay the blood money and end it.
- I won't be forced into paying. - Why forced?
Put yourself in their place.
- I'm not responsible for their troubles. - Their child died!
And my dad has been hurt. He doesn't even speak anymore.
He didn't speak much before.
I was happy with the few words he spoke.
Is it as bad as losing a baby?
Where were you to see I caused it?
- Then how did she lose it? - I don't know.
There might be a chance that her husband did something
and now she wants to blame me.
Her child said that day she had gone to the doctor.
Why couldn't she wait two hours to go to the doctor?
Why did she tie the old man to his bed and leave?
The examiner said her child died due to a blow.
How do we know it was a blow from me?
I won't accept it till it's been proven to me.
Fine, let me take Termeh.
Shame on you for putting pressure on me now.
I am worried about her.
Your child wants to live here. She has to stay here and learn.
Learn what? Fighting and obstinacy?
To learn not to be a coward like you
who gives in so easily.
He knows who to frighten. Why doesn't he threaten me?
Yes, I'm a coward.
Your whole life,
instead of solving problems,
you've either run away or raised your hands and given in.
Just say why you want to leave this country.
You're afraid to stay.
I was gone one week and you couldn't manage.
I couldn't manage and I'm responsible.
Give me Termeh and you do what you want.
Termeh, sweetie, you don't have to stay.
Go wherever you like.
You still don't want to come?
"He sells it for twenty a kilo.
"If everyday he sells 270 kilos..." Write 270.
Then, how much profit does he make in one day?
How do you solve this?
Did you lie?
What?
Did you lie?
About what?
When you said you didn't know she was pregnant.
Why?
You said that you didn't hear Ms Qahraei
and Razieh speaking.
Yes.
Then how did you know that Ms Qahraei gave her the number?
Didn't she say it at the same time?
OK.
If we want to calculate the profit...
Yes, I knew.
Your mum was telling the truth.
When they were talking in the hall, I heard everything
from the kitchen.
Then why did you say you didn't?
Do you know what would happen if I said I knew?
One to three years in prison.
I only thought of what would happen to you...
who you'd stay with.
I said I didn't know.
If you knew, why did you hit her?
I knew she was pregnant but at that moment I didn't.
I had forgotten it. I wasn't paying attention.
So tell them this.
The law doesn't care about this.
Either I knew or I didn't...
Look at me.
If you want me to I'll tell them.
Hi.
Didn't I say not to come to the front?
Ms Qahraei!
What are you doing?
Ms Qahraei, wait...
If you pull over I'll just explain something to you.
Please let me...
Dad!
Who's responsible for my child's safety now?
Without a witness there's no case.
So without a witness I should wait for him to kill her
and then come to you?
How should I know you are telling the truth?
Why should I lie?
Bring my daughter and father here just to lie?
Is she here now?
Yes, outside.
Ask her yourself.
I'm afraid to leave her at school. I'm afraid to leave my dad at home.
Is the plaintiff here?
Did you finish writing?
Almost.
You didn't know his wife was pregnant?
No, I didn't.
When she was speaking to the tutor, you didn't hear them?
No, I didn't.
You didn't, huh?
What I'm saying is...
The tutor came and revoked her testimony.
She says you knew.
- She said I knew? - Yes, she came yesterday.
He threatened her...
Answer me. Did you hear her or not?
I said no.
How did you know about the doctor's number?
My daughter told me.
What did she tell you?
That she got the number from her teacher.
Go tell her to come in.
Now?
And wait outside.
What question?
What does he want to ask?
I don't know. Give me that.
So what do you have to say?
You haven't asked me anything.
Didn't your dad tell you what I want to ask you?
No.
What grade are you in school?
Sixth.
The day your tutor came to your house
and asked the lady about her pregnancy,
were you there?
Not then, I had gone to get my books.
Then how did you know
she got the doctor's number from your tutor?
She gave her the number later, when she was leaving.
In front of you?
Yes.
Why didn't you tell your dad sooner?
What?
That she got the doctor's number from your tutor.
I didn't think it was important for my dad to know.
And did you tell your dad or did he hear it?
That she gave the number? I told him.
You told him?
Yes.
OK.
What crime did I commit?
Nothing. You're right.
He's not accepting his responsibility.
I admit that he's to blame but in the end what will happen?
One or two years in court for a payment plan of the blood money.
But why? That's what upsets me.
Why do you think it's for the money?
When did I say such a thing?
You think I am a bum and my kid died
and I don't understand anything.
I never said anything like that.
Let's see what she's saying.
There's no other way.
Your child won't come back.
My husband won't get hanged.
Her husband didn't do it on purpose.
They're good people for giving you a solution.
Take the money and settle it. You can use it in your situation.
Right now we'll decide on an amount and I'll get my husband's approval.
Now we have to get his approval? For God's sake leave us alone.
You act like you don't need the money.
Take a look at yourself.
Don't let him go.
Wait a second. I want to talk to you.
Will you stay?
Mum...
Let me speak to him.
Come sit. I want to talk to you.
I can hear you.
I went and spoke to her husband today.
Sit down.
I managed
to get him to agree
to take fifteen million instead of forty million.
Three five-million checks in exchange for his consent.
How dare you speak to him about money?
I can't handle the stress of my child's safety.
You don't get it.
Just now when you were late, I was worried sick.
Why are you interfering?
I didn't come here to fight.
Oh God, why can't I make her understand?
Didn't you say it was my fault, that I introduced her,
that if I hadn't left, none of this would've happened?
So let me fix it then.
If I pay, it means I have accepted it was my fault.
But he has consented.
He won't let us be.
- He won't, anyway. - Why should I bribe him?
Think of it as my dower money.
If I had to I would beg and borrow
to get your dower money.
But I don't have the money to pay for extortion.
Our child is going through adolescence. She is suffering.
So you understand the sensitivity of her adolescence.
If she was suffering she wouldn't have stayed.
Why do you think she stayed?
Did she choose you?
To keep us from separating.
She knows I won't go anywhere without her.
She is suffering but she doesn't show it.
Call them now and say I won't pay
until it's been proved to me that I am responsible.
I'll sell my car.
Don't sell it for my sake.
It's not for you.
If your child is not worth...
Why are you talking nonsense? Money's not the issue.
I won't rest till my child's safety is guaranteed.
You don't have the right to do anything.
Understand?
If I had done nothing you would be in prison.
Come to court and get back the bail.
I don't want to be out because of it.
Get up, Termeh.
Get up, let's go.
Get up, I tell you.
Mum, please.
I don't want you to stay here.
No, Mum, I won't let you.
Is fifteen million more important than your child's life?
I won't let you do this.
If your child is not important...
Mum, please listen, why are you doing this?
You said you would stay.
I was stupid!
Mum, please...
I'll wait in the car.
Go there for a few days till your exams are finished.
Your grandparents are there.
You'll have more fun.
Didn't you say it's not serious?
It got serious.
Termeh...
Honey...
If you cry I'll cry too.
Why won't you pay them so she'll come back?
This has nothing to do with her coming back.
It does. She had come to stay.
Her stuff was in the car, I saw it.
If you think I am guilty
go get your mum.
We'll call them and go pay them.
I have doubts.
Didn't he throw you?
Yes.
Did something happen at home?
No. Even before, my child wasn't moving.
Before he threw you?
You mean your child had already died?
I don't know. Maybe.
Had something happened?
I'm not sure but... the night before, I had pain.
- Have you ever lost a baby before? - No.
I was hit by a car.
You father-in-law had gone into the street.
I went after him.
He was crossing the street to come back.
I ran to stop him but I got hit instead.
The pain started that night.
Does your husband know this?
Why don't you come say this in court?
My husband will kill me if he finds out I told you this.
Since yesterday when he promised his creditors,
he's been waiting.
What do we have to do with all this?
It's my fault.
Yesterday when he said you've promised him this money,
I got really scared. I called a few people.
They say if I have doubts then it's a sin to take it.
If we don't pay my husband's innocence must be proved.
I made you swear not to repeat any of this!
But your husband won't leave us alone.
I fear for my child.
I'm afraid that if I take this money
something will happen to my child.
What do you want me to do?
Don't pay this money.
Don't.
Will your husband leave us alone?
Give me that. Bring some plates.
Don't worry. Nothing will happen.
When you revoke your complaint,
we'll give you these three checks.
God bless you.
Hojjat, get a pen and paper
so we can write everything down and sign it.
I want to say something first...
Say a prayer and finish it.
I have already agreed and will honour my word.
I just want his wife and my daughter to be here
when I speak.
Where is she?
Thank you.
Please, also call my daughter.
Come in. Your father wants you.
Termeh, come and sit here.
Excuse me, sir.
Look...
I wrote the checks and I'll give them to you.
There's no problem.
I need to ask a favour.
Ma'am, you are a devout person.
Swear on the Qoran that I caused your miscarriage.
Bring a Qoran.
Go get it.
Come quickly or they'll suspect something.
His creditors are here for the money.
You'll ruin our reputation.
I won't swear.
Didn't you say you went to get his father and a car hit you?
Why aren't you coming?
She's afraid to swear.
Why?
I... I have doubts.
Oh God...
Azam, go sit with them.
Why are you saying this now?
I swear I told Azam.
Tell me exactly what happened.
The day before, a car hit me.
And that night I had a lot of pain.
- Let's go, it'll be my sin. - No.
It's a sin. I asked.
What sin? He's consented. Let's go.
I am scared we'll be punished.
More punished than this? Look at my situation.
Have mercy on me. On our child.
I'm afraid of something happening to our child.
Let's go.
I can't.
Let's go.
I can't.
Don't hit yourself!
Why did you come here tonight? Didn't I tell you not to come?
Didn't I say we don't want your money?
How will I live in this house?
Why did you do this to me?
Come on.
Let's go.
Hello. Come in.
So what's your decision?
Your parents have left it up to you to decide who you want to live with.
With your father or your mother?
Have you decided?
Yes.
- Have you? - Yes.
Have you decided or not?
Yes.
And what is it?
Do I have to say it now?
- If you haven't decided... - Yes, I have.
- If you haven't decided yet... - I have.
And?
Would you prefer them to wait outside?
Can they?
Sir, wait outside for a minute.
You too, ma'am.