Augenstern

Amir tries to reconstruct his life. In the garden of his father's villa stands the rusted convertible with which he impressed women during the Shah's era. At the Iranian-Iraqi front, a grenade tore off his arm. His memories are erased. What do his mother and sister know, who found him in an institution for traumatized soldiers? Every few hours, he reflexively reaches for the golden ring that was on his lost hand. Who was the mysterious woman with whom he bought it in the glittering gold bazaar? Memories flicker before him. In search of the love of his life, he wanders through Tehran. He finds a country torn apart by violence, war, and lies, and ultimately discovers a shocking trace in his own garden that points to the future. Uncompromising, multifaceted, and polyphonic, Shahriar Mandanipur tells a breathtaking love story while simultaneously chronicling the upheavals in Iran.