Theyre blissfully happy and in love, eager to start their new lives as husband and wife.
The wife, Tehranis Mojdeh, suspects her husband, Farokh-Nejads Morteza, of having an affair.
And she quickly enlists her naive new housekeeper into some sleuthing.
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But she turns out to be a not-very-good spy.
Farhadis intrigue doesnt feel like the stuff of a Hollywood thriller.
Its more realistic, more pedestrian than that which gives it a real ring of low-key emotional truth.
Is this what shes in for?
Its like a white-noise omen that some horrible truth is about to detonate and be exposed.
