Firouzeh Khosrovani’s striking and poetic memoir tells the story of her parents' marriage, a fraught alliance that was emblematic of the tensions that tore 20th-century Iran apart. Her father Hossein, worldly and secular, was studying radiology in Geneva when he married her mother, Tayi, a timid, deeply religious girl who saw “sin everywhere” when she came to live in Switzerland. After she broke her spine in a skiing accident, the couple returned to Iran, which was simmering with the revolutionary spirit that led to the overthrow of the Shah. As her mother becomes radicalized with Islamic fervor, the balance of power in the marriage shifts, and all the trappings of Western culture are gradually removed from their home. Using found footage, old photographs and love letters, and imagining the dialogues between her increasingly estranged parents, Khosrovani’s meditation on the tumultuous culture clash that formed her is a deeply felt work of art.