在这部面纱之后剧情片中,一部电影的力量究竟有多大？甚至可以使人牺牲生命？导演泰米妮米兰妮因本片遭伊朗宗教法庭以教唆叛乱罪起诉，直至国际名导科波拉等人集体连署上书政府高层，方获保释。而现实中的戏剧性政治嘲谑，亦如影片拍摄主题：原本生活无虑的法官夫人，因为先生奉命审理女政治犯的死刑上诉案件，开始面对尘封已久的过往，理想、自由与爱情，透过自白书与今昔岁月的交错叙述，不但揭开了过去的神秘面纱，也展开一趟政治的同时也是私领域的探险与革命。
An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death, a political prisoner. The official's wife of nearly 20 years, Fereshteh Samimi, writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel - the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978. We see the story in flashbacks as he reads: she leaves her province on scholarship, joins a Communist youth group, avoids arrest, and comes under the sway of a suave older man, Roozbeh Javid, a literary-magazine editor. As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life, Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution, a woman and therefore one of Iran's hidden half.
清晰。面纱背后。令人清醒的故事。
