Inspired by the cinema of Iran, Indian female filmmaker Sreemoyee Singh undertakes a personal journey where she explores the lives of artists and filmmakers in Tehran. The film reveals how artists negotiate the oppressive Islamic government, its stringent censorship body, and the limitations it imposes on fundamental rights of expression. As filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Shirvani provide an entry into their world of isolation, they also open up a window to real-life-common people, especially women whose daily battles with repression have been the source of their stories. Having learned Persian, the filmmaker gets natural access into their inner world. The artists manage to find a way to express their despair through cinema, but what about a society that is denied in communicating its pain? How is it to live in a society where individuals are forbidden to share their sorrows and desires? Here anything pleasurable is forbidden. Women cannot sing in public, or openly talk about their choices or desires. Does one stop desiring in such a society? Where does expression emerge from in a such claustrophobic atmosphere?