Released:
2005-10-05

Overview:
Squatters live on a mothballed oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. The children attend a school on board; men harvest scrap metal and old oil in the hull; women keep house and raise children and Captain Nemat runs it all with an iron hand. We follow a lad who rescues fish trapped in the hull, an old man who stares at the sun, the idealistic teacher, and Ahmad, the Captain's assistant who has fallen in love with a young woman whose father wants to marry her to someone of means. What future has this sinking city?

Director:
Mohammad Rasoulof

Runtime:
1h 26min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Ali Nasirian
  as
  Captain Nemat
• 
  Hossein Farzi-Zadeh
  as
  Ahmad
• 
  Neda Pakdaman
  as
  Golpar Salehi