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During the rule of the Taliban in Afghanistan, about 3 million Afghans who were mostly illegal immigrants entered Iran, causing numerous problems for the Iranian society to accept them. This film is the story of a 17 year-old rural girl by the name of Mahi, who comes from a war-stricken family in the southern Iran. Mahi falls in love with an Afghan student named Heiran, who has come to their village to work. But Mahi`s family is strictly against her marriage to an Afghan, which forces her to choose between her family and an Afghan lad.