The Old Bachelor

In an Iran weighted down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father’s abusiveness led his second wife to leave him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the younger sibling fantasizes about ways to kill his father.

When the man rents out the flat above theirs to a young woman, with the intention of marrying her, the woman’s attraction to the older son slowly pushes this profoundly damaged family to a breaking point.