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“Love can destroy your life, but thanks to it you can find the courage to cross the frontiers of existence!” These are the last words that Atieh Attarzadeh, the co-director of the film, will have heard from the mouth of her ex-husband, who she never saw again, and who was committed, after their separation, to a psychiatric hospital. Mental illness, the ultimate stigma of our society, therefore takes for her the form of a mystery that she tries to unravel through this film. Accompanied by Hesam Eslami, she crosses the doors of Ehsan House, a psychiatric centre in Tehran which has implemented a revolutionary project: allowing marriage between its patients. The film follows the day-to-day of these women and men in search of love, and who will have to face the prejudices of a traditionalist society. Madness, love, and hope are interwoven in this film, which alternates between anthropological observation and diary, to give us a heartbreaking account of personal relationships. (Visions du Réel)
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