Cafe Setareh

This movie is special because it brings out beautifully the ordinary lives in a culture that is more than two thousand years old.

The movie is based on three women characters living in a poor neighborhood in Tehran. Moghadam does an excellent job of telling a story that follows the lives of these three women.

Fariba runs cafe Setareh and her husband who is a drug-addict lives off her earnings. The local car mechanic, Ebi is a good friend of Fariba's brother Khosro, and is in love with Saloomeh, a beautiful young woman who lives alone with her blind father. Molook who is Saloomeh's friend and landlady has feelings for Khosro.

The movie is divided into three parts and each parts unfolds the tragedies that bind the lives of these three women. Music is familiar and yet poignant.