Payback is in their grasp, but an Iranian psychological thriller offers no easy answers

The silence is broken by a sudden impact as Rashad’s car hits a dog in the middle of nowhere. Now stranded with a sputtering engine, he limps to the nearest repair shop. However, this film, a Cannes Palme d’Or winner by Jafar Panahi, isn’t really *about* Rashad. He quickly becomes secondary to the true focus of the story, and it’s revealed he might actually be the antagonist – though the path to revenge is rarely simple.







