A journey across Iran in the 1940s where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter as Soleiman Yaran, a Jewish dentist and a widower,struggles with his relationship with Velvet, the wife of the Governor General, who longs for freedom and for love.
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