When Faraz accepts his uncle's offer of a summer job converting one of the Tehran's prisons into a museum of repressive rule of the Shah, he understands too late that this will mean destroying all evidence that the present regime, the Islamic Republic of Iran, has also tortured and executed prisoners there. Haunted by the treachery of what he, a teacher of history, is required to do, Faraz discovers a series of secret notebooks written by Xavar, a young pregnant woman interned there in 1984 - and he realises there's a way to redeem the situation. Xavar is writing love letters to her...