Forough Farrokhzad stands as one of the great feminist poets anywhere in the 20th century. She had already published three volumes by the time the producer and filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan offered her the chance to direct a documentary short. The subject was a leper colony in northwestern. The result was a marvel of documentary filmmaking distilled through her poetic sensibility for words (through the voiceover) and command of rhythm (in the editing of the images she captured).
