A writer's journey for freedom of expression.

 

Shohreh is a writer torn between her Iranian roots and dreams of a life without censorship. By night, she transforms her room--dubbed "America"--into a sanctuary inspired by James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Ernest Hemingway. Here, in her room in Tehran, she builds a bridge between her country and America through reading, writing, and dreaming of peace. 

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After joining her husband in America, her romanticized vision shatters. Met by a growing authoritarianism, a Muslim ban, ideological deportation, and the harrowing escalation of a U.S.-Israel war on Iran, her literary dreams collide with a brutal reality of a another America. Despite being in exile and facing domestic repression, Shohreh remains an unyielding voice against war targeting her homeland, Iran. Her journey proves that home is not a territory granted by a state, but a sanctuary built through the unyielding courage of the exiled. 

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