The courageous Iranian director, Jafar Panahi (Tehran Taxi, Offside), won the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for prizes at the BAFTAs and Oscars. An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man whom he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man’s identity.