A Sisters’ Tale

US PREMIEREFilmmaker Leila Amini followed her sister Nasreen around with a camera for seven years, capturing her covert mission to become a famous singer. But an unsupportive husband, family pressure, and Iran’s oppressive stranglehold on female expression threatens Nasreen’s happiness every step of the way.Filmmaker Leila Amini’s sister Nasreen once filled their Tehran home with her beautiful voice. However, she stopped singing when pressured to marry Mohamad. Over the years, Nasreen dedicated herself to being an excellent wife and mother. Yet with Mohamad working primarily outside the home, Nasreen longed for the simple joys and affections of married Life. When her youngest child was born, Nasreen became terrified that her only achievement in life would be as a mother of two children. Determined to pursue her lifelong passion for singing—even though performing in public is forbidden for women in Iran—Nasreen gradually transforms from a vulnerable homemaker into a woman in control of her own destiny.Over seven years of filming, Leila captures Nasreen’s journey to free her voice as a singer and as a woman, inspiring fundamental change for her children, her sisters, their mother, and, hopefully, for their country.