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RAHA

By Alireza GHASEMI

Drama - Development 2019

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- IRAN
- Languages
- PERSIAN
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Alireza GHASEMI
- Synopsis
- Raha, a 20-year-old university student has returned to her home city after a long time to find a way to get her mother out of prison. As an old tradition going on in some of Iran’s small cities, every six months a lottery is held in which all the neighbours pay in some money and the winner gets all. Afterwards, the winner has six months to pay the money back to the neighbours.
  Raha’s mother has won the recent lottery. After investing the money in a financial institution, hoping to make a profit she loses it in the economic crisis.
  
  With the neighbours having a case against her, she is now being sentenced. Only having two weeks until the court’s final decision, Raha has to get the neighbors’ consent to drop the case. She finally gets some of the neighbors’ consent. But some of the neighbours are expecting things in return, which slowly introduces Raha to the world of crime. Raha gradually understands that drug trafficking in prison is one of the most profitable businesses in Iran. She slowly begins to question whether it would be more beneficial for her family if her mother stayed inside the prison?