A nontraditional wife and mother Azar Karimi is first seen racing her dirt bike over a hilly track while her husband Amir Azarang and young daughter cheer her on Coequal with her liberalminded husband in marriage and in their fledgling business venture a café with a thriving carryout trade she is forced to meet an unequal challenge in which the strict pecking order of a family dominated by misogynist uncle a business loan with strings attached a black sheep son with a hidden agenda and a tragic accident add up to a scenario in which Azar is targeted as the unwilling sacrificial victim Gene Siskel Film Center