Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan's lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they're mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?
Said Mohamadi
as Said
Behnaz Jafari
as Halaleh
Bahman Ghobadi
as Rebwar
Mohamad Karim Rahmati
as Father
Rafat Moradi
as Ribwar
Mayas Rostami
as Young boy storyteller
Saman Akbari
as Group leader
Ahmad Bahrami
as Marriage registrar
Mohamad Moradi
as Match maker
Karim Moradi
as Old man
Hassan Mohamadi
as Child
Rasool Mohamadi
as The boy porter
