Through the eyes of Marjane, a 9-year-old girl who is precocious and outspoken, the film reveals that the hopes of the Iranian people were shattered after the fundamentalists took power. Women were forced to wear veils and tens of thousands of people were thrown into prison. The smart and bold Marjane managed to hide from the official minions and got to know the punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden bands. The outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War has plunged people's lives into endless fear. As Marjane grew older, her boldness made her parents more and more worried about her safety. When she was 14 years old, they finally made the difficult decision to send her to the Austrian capital Vienna to attend school.
Living in a foreign country, lonely and fragile, Marjane has endured the usual torture of teenagers, and is often equated with the religious fundamentalism and extremism from which she has escaped. She did not shrink from this, tried her best to argue, and finally won recognition, even some After graduating from high school, Marjane made a boyfriend and had a happy time. Later, she discovered the betrayal of her boyfriend, which made her desperate. She often sleeps on the street. Later, she suffered from bronchitis and passed out on the street. , Was taken to the hospital by someone else and got help. After Marjane woke up in the hospital bed, she decided to call her parents and asked her parents to promise not to ask anything. The parents agreed, so Marjane decided to return to China. After a difficult period of adjustment, Marjane entered the art school and married as a wife. She still did not change her personality of speaking upright and continued to criticize current abuses. At the age of 24, she realized that although she was a genuine Iranian, she could not live in this country, so she made a painful decision to leave her hometown for France, although the past was imprinted with an indelible mark, but She wants to pursue an optimistic and bright future.
