Keys in the Blue Bowl

Mina Astaira, a 42-year-old Iranian-Australian academic navigating a precarious life in Melbourne, returns to

Tehran following her mother's abrupt death from cancer. The trip is framed as straightforward logistics: inventory her late mother Nahid's belongings, prepare the family villa in the Alborz foothills for sale, and sever ties to a place heavy with memory. Yet from the moment the plane's black wing slices through the winter haze over Tehran, the journey begins to unravel into somethin...