A remarkable exploration of women's resilience in revolutionary Iran. Adapted from Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran.
When a former professor at Tehran University secretly gathers seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics, each takes a tremendous risk. As fundamentalists seize control, the women remove their veils and speak about their intimate hopes, loves, disappointments, femininity, and search for a place in an increasingly oppressive society. By reading Lolita in Tehran, they celebrate the liberating power of literature in revolutionary Iran and form their own future.