As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, an inspired teacher secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they remove their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Austen and more. Like the literary heroines, they dare to dream, hope and love.
