Nasrin Mohammadpour

Maryam is a 38-year-old woman who heads a family of four. She decides to cut off her right hand while working in a poultry slaughterhouse because, in this way, she can get more money from insurance than losing her left hand to pay her debts. To this end, Maryam starts to practice with her left hand to do daily chores.

At twenty-one weeks pregnant, a woman decides to have an abortion— which is both legally and religiously forbidden—despite her husband’s objections. She travels to different parts of the city to secretly bury the baby she miscarries, but she cannot find a safe place.

Maryam is a 38-year-old woman who heads a family of four. She decides to cut off her right hand while working in a poultry slaughterhouse because, in this way, she can get more money from insurance than losing her left hand to pay her debts. To this end, Maryam starts to practice with her left hand to do daily chores.

At twenty-one weeks pregnant, a woman decides to have an abortion— which is both legally and religiously forbidden—despite her husband’s objections. She travels to different parts of the city to secretly bury the baby she miscarries, but she cannot find a safe place.

At twenty-one weeks pregnant, a woman decides to have an abortion— which is both legally and religiously forbidden—despite her husband’s objections. She travels to different parts of the city to secretly bury the baby she miscarries, but she cannot find a safe place.