Filmmaker Elahe Esmaili helps pack up their parents’ house. As the boxes pile up, intergenerational discussions also flare up: Elahe does not wear a hijab, embodying the courage of her generation.

Esmaili longs for a deep, existential shift, driven by the Women, Life, Freedom protest movement that pervaded Iran. “Don’t trust how I look in this film: so peaceful, trying to keep it calm, cool, and collected. I was trying to rehearse something with my family about acceptance and coexistence, so it had to be peaceful. But I was feeling extreme rage as a filmmaker at that time, the urgency that we needed to do something. That was the common feeling of everyone who wanted to and could do something at that point [of the movement],” she told Talking Shorts in an interview.