Employing her trademark fly-on-the-wall style, this time in a shelter for runaways in Tehran, award-winning director Kim Longinotto returns to the subject of Iranian women living in a society which is modernising its public institutions, yet still essentially patriarchal at a domestic level. With often painful persistence the camera records runaways recounting harrowing tales of beatings, sexual assault, humiliation, nervous breakdowns and suicidal despair suffered at the hands of abusive relatives and partners. The film makes no attempt to comment on the material or shape it into a narrative, rather letting the runaways and their tales speak for themselves. It also offers a fascinating glimpse into Iran’s social welfare system and presents a complex portrait of the women driven to avail themselves thereof.