Atomic Heart

Brightly colored hair hiding under their headscarves. Their favorite pop music blaring from the speakers. The protagonists inAtomic Heart Mother drive the same streets of Tehran as Jafar Panahi inTaxi Tehran. In Iran, women are only free to meet outside their homes in cars. While returning from a wild party, Arineh and Nobahar cause an accident. A stranger named Toofan (who looks remarkably like George Clooney) offers to cover the repair costs. The girls ridicule the Iranian authorities and dream up bold intercultural theories as they pick up a series of passengers on their surreal journey. Atomic Heart Mother shows Iran's dizzyingly schizophrenic society. One dictatorial regime after another has forbidden immoral behavior, considering it socially undesirable. The two hipster girls, liberated from patriarchalism, look at the irrationality of life in their country. They dream about love and sleepless nights.