Sara, a schoolteacher from Tehran, is preparing for a wedding in northern Iran with her daughter and husband, Hamed. But when an unforeseen emergency at work arises, Hamad suddenly forbids the rest of his family from attending without him. When reasoning and a charm offensive do not work, the determined Sara hatches an insidious plan that would allow her and her daughter to go in secret. But an unexpected event at the wedding causes Sara’s minor act of petty rebellion to snowball into something much more severe.