The Hidden Half

An official is sent from his home in Tehran to hear the final appeal of a woman sentenced to death a political prisoner The officials wife of nearly 20 years Fereshteh Samimi writes him a letter to read when he reaches the hotel the story of her student days during the revolution of 1978 We see the story in flashbacks as he reads she leaves her province on scholarship joins a Communist youth group avoids arrest and comes under the sway of a suave older man Roozbeh Javid a literarymagazine editor As she tells her husband about the hidden half of her life Fereshteh asks that he listen to the woman facing execution a woman and therefore one of Irans hidden half