The creaking sound of a wooden leg, the limp that comes with it, sets Jafar Panahis in his mind A simple accident a search for identity that is as tragicomic as it is oppressive. The man with the prosthesis hit a dog on the country road and just happens to pass by Vahid’s workshop. But Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri) thinks he recognizes Eghbal (Ebrahim Azizi), who is subsequently only called Holzbein, as the man who sadistically tortured him and other prisoners during a prison sentence – and decides to kidnap and kill Holzbein. If the torturers are walking around freely, limping or not, if they live in prosperity and can raise a family, then something is wrong in the country.
