Hamed’s uncle has been dead for more than thirty years. In his youth he had met and married a Tajik girl while studying abroad in Germany. Hamed’s father never accepted her, and after his brother died, he drove her off and took the land his brother had given her. Now he’s feeling guilty and has sent his son on a mission to find her. But will Hamed be able to do enough to make up for his father’s past sins?
02:08He's looking forward to you coming and taking him abroad.
02:12You really do look out for each other. He's always having dreams about you. He dreamt that you were coming back from Mecca. Hello? Hello?
02:22Uh, yeah, well, I'm coming home now. By the way, why do you sound so tired?
02:31Just be happy I'm not speaking from the grave.
02:34Don't worry. As long as Temuri and the likes of him don't get their hands on our accounts, you won't be speaking from the grave.
02:40Farid, have you heard anything from Temuri?
02:43No. I mean, definitely no.
02:46Thank God. Thank God.
02:48So how are you? What else is new?
02:51I say, Hamid.
02:54You know, I never thought I'd be so dependent on you.
02:57Of course, I never thought I'd be able to take care of everything on my own, either.
03:06Hamid. Hello?
03:09Hello?
03:11Hello, Farid?
03:27Good day.
03:46Hello.
03:47Sit down, please.
03:48Excuse me, uh, I don't have much time, and I'd like to know why you asked me to come here.
03:59I have a ticket for Iran. I got to get back really quick.
04:02Don't worry about it.
04:04I just wanted to tell you that the complaint that you filed against those criminals needs to be closed.
04:10Because none of them are alive.
04:11You understand?
04:13The last one got himself killed, trying to get a crate from underground.
04:16And he got into a fight with one of our officers.
04:20What an evil treasure.
04:22It didn't even spare one of them.
04:25Unfortunately.
04:30It's going to be handed over to the Iranian authorities.
04:36Do you want to see it?
04:38It's still here.
04:46It's still here.
05:11In this crate is the treasure that all of those people died to try to get.
05:30Who is it?
05:33This is an Iranian who sought asylum from the former Soviet Union.
05:41Can you read what he's written here? He's identified himself in this letter.
05:54It's been a few days that I've been in this crate now, and it's been half a day that I've been buried under the ground so that I wouldn't be captured by the agents.
06:03The only hole I was able to breathe through has been covered with the earth now, and I'm writing on the paper lining this crate in pitch darkness so that it might be a guiding light for future generations.
06:15Yes, it is possible to be a guiding flame even in the absence of any light.
06:21I stepped into this burning hell, in the winter of injustice and oppression, searching for justice, searching for comfort and safety for the oppressed and for the ideal city that I'd pictured in my mind.
06:33Only to find that what we already had within ourselves to achieve justice, I was begging a stranger to give me, a stranger who wasn't honest and who took the wrong path.
06:44Maybe years later someone will read this and accept it from this anonymous writer that you must never trust a stranger, a child of Iran who hopes to be forgiven by his mother.
06:54I recall I once said to you that I hope we would never see each other again unless…
07:19Unless it's in Iran.
07:21In Shiraz and Toos.
07:22You must come for a visit. You'd be most welcome.
07:25I know. You didn't have a good time in Dushanbe.
07:28No, actually I didn't. I mean, I don't really think so. We have to see what good reason there was for all the hardships I went through here. Dushanbe gives me a good vibe.
07:41Its high buildings, its streets, its trees and plants, and its people. Yeah, its people.
07:50There are good and bad people anywhere. Especially here where the people are so hard working. The people whose Tajik language never made me feel as if I were in a foreign country.
08:00As our poet Galnazar says, Dushanbe is yet a very young capital city for the ancient people of my country. The pain of what we have lost can never be contained. Just like the anguish of my people in my heart. I hope that everyone gets to find which they are searching for and that you will be able to find what you seek. I really wish you the best.
08:28I'll never forget you, sir.
08:34Thank you. Goodbye. Goodbye.
08:37Goodbye.
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09:02Goodbye.
09:03Goodbye.
09:04Hamid!
09:34Hamid!
09:50Hello.
09:52Hello. I'm not late, am I?
09:55Not much.
10:00I thought it would be better to dress like Fatima used to do now that we're...
10:05going to go and visit her grave.
10:30I should have had a good cry about this years ago, so I'd feel better.
10:39I should have had a good cry about this years ago, so I'd feel better.
10:54There was this lump in my throat, but I didn't know why or what for.
11:07I wish I could read this.
11:12But I don't know how.
11:15Please tell me what's written here.
11:17You could learn how to read it. Start with the Qur'an.
11:21It was my mother's, and I'm giving it to you.
11:30It's the most precious thing I have.
11:32The all-knowing.
11:37This earthly body is like dust that covers the face of my soul.
11:41How sweet is the moment when my true face can be unveiled.
11:44The eternal resting place in the martyr Fatima, daughter of Yusuf,
11:48wife and comrade of the martyr Soban Salimpur,
11:51who gave their lives in the hope of achieving a world filled with goodness and honesty.
11:56These are tears of happiness.
12:03This was Fatima's ring.
12:09Uncle Soban had given it to her.
12:12It's a shame that after all that I went through,
12:15I wasn't able to find their heir so that I could give him this valuable memento.
12:19I want to give this ring to you.
12:23Me?
12:24Yeah.
12:26Why me?
12:33My heart tells me that they'd like me to do this.
12:37Didn't you say you wanted to be like Fatima?
12:39I wish I had Soban's picture too.
12:41I'll be sure to send it to you.
12:54My heart tells me that if I remember this is a cold tree that was четкая.
12:57I'm done.
12:58And it's too much to do with that.
12:59I'm so sorry to take my eyes.
13:01Ever had to go to bed?
13:02Yes!
13:03You went ahead and you put it down.
13:04Well, I'm so sorry to have those legs.
13:06Yes!
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13:21Come on, here we go!
13:32Please come in.
13:35She's here.
13:51She's afraid that I might leave her for good.
14:16That's the reason she never told me that I...
14:22Excuse me, I'm talking too much again.
14:26Hello there, ma'am.
14:46What is she trying to say?
14:54Nothing important.
14:55She's just telling me to offer you something.
14:57Don't trouble yourself.
14:59I got to go now.
15:00She says, why are you so lazy?
15:21Offer the guest something.
15:23No, believe me, there's no need.
15:24I really have to go now.
15:26By the way, regarding the thing we talked about earlier, I've spoken with my father about it,
15:32and as soon as I get to Tehran, I'll send it over to you.
15:34It's Zoban and Fatima's treasure that's come to me.
15:39It would be good if you gave it to people over there who are more in need than me.
15:48Now that I've got you and Fatima's keepsake,
15:53it would be better if I gave your keepsake back to you.
15:56While I sew this button on for you, please have some tea.
16:14I've got something even better that might be of some use to you.
16:21So please, please sit down.
16:24Here you are.
16:47Here you are.
16:54I'm not able to read Farsi, but I know that they will be of some interest to you.
17:07I have never seen these before.
17:10Moeen was able to read Farsi very well.
17:12He took a couple of pages and said that the rest weren't of any use.
17:19He said they were worthless.
17:22Worthless?
17:23Worthless to him, maybe.
17:25For that worthless thing that he was planning to do.
17:28If you'll permit me, I'll take these with me to Aran.
17:38And as soon as you're able to read Farsi, I'll send them back to you.
17:41I promise you.
17:45Alright.
17:46Well, I've got to get going now.
18:14Miss Nadia.
18:20My name is Shokrane.
18:28Nadia was my grandmother's name.
18:32She was Russian.
18:33She was the one who chose the name Tamara for Fatime.
18:39When Diba was only four years old, my grandmother and my grandfather got a divorce.
18:45And she took Tamara with her to Russia.
18:47I never knew what the name Shokrane even meant.
18:56My mother, I mean Diba, never told me the meaning of it.
19:01And that's because she didn't know it either.
19:05Sometimes, sometimes you receive a nice present from someone you love.
19:12And then you thank them in an even better way.
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