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Mr. Hekmati is an educated and humble teacher of a school located in a poor neighborhood in Tehran, in pre-revolutionary Iran. He finds himself embroiled in a scandal when he falls in love with a hardworking underprivileged young woman, who nurses her very old mother and raises her young brother.

Restored in 2011 by The World Cinema Foundation at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata in collaboration with Bahram Beyzaie. Restoration funding provided by Doha Film Institute.