Rose, a little girl in Tehran, lives with her mother and her dog. She discovers that her neighbours are killing sheep. Her mother explains that the animals are being sacrificed in a traditional ritual where their meat is cooked and distributed among people. Rose considers it foolish to follow this old tradition in modern life. She decides to save the remaining sheep.

Accused of psychic hacking on a politician, Zoé is interrogated by Sam, an investigator who can communicate with her subconscious to force her to tell the truth.

"Hope Road" reflects the filmmaker’s artistic journey in a world shaken by crises and wars, as the mother of a small child whose existence seems to demand something dif- ferent from her than the production of art. While the ‘old world’ of the artist founders, she escapes from the dysto- pian scenarios of the present by taking up the child’s point of view.

A narrator tells the story of an eccentric childhood friend.

In his village where bread is scarce, Ousseynou, a former fisherman, finds stability by selling stale bread. The opening of his sister-in-law's bakery creates an unspoken tension between them, jeopardizing his business and family role.

An ordinary family man, a night rideshare driver, gradually sinks into conspiracy theories. Convinced that a child trafficking ring is operating near his home, he decides to take action, plunging himself into a dangerous spiral.

As a one-armed man unwillingly carries himself up the stairs to an exhibition hall, where the title on the poster reads “WAR: The Eternal Red”, spectators browse around photographs depicting all the horrors of war. Some are shocked, some indifferent, while others discuss the art of the photos, but not the contents. Feeling uncomfortable in all of this, the one-armed man, however, gets fixated on a single image, featuring the exchange of prisoners. He is one of those prisoners. As he coldly scans the photo, beside him he notices a man, scanning him with the same look in his eyes