Saturday, April 18, 2020
Under the Shadow (2016)
Synopsis
In the 80's, during the war between the Islamic
post-revolutionary Iran and Iraq, the former leftist medical student
Shideh tries to return to the university but is barred by the dean. The
upset Shideh returns home and when her husband Dr. Iraj is assigned to
work in a war zone, she refuses to move to his parent's house with their
daughter Dorsa. Shideh prefers to stay in her apartment with Dorsa, who
loves her doll Kimia and has constant fever. Dorsa is afraid of
demoniac Djinns and when Shideh asks who told her about the legend, she
tells that her friend that lives downstairs. Shideh visits her neighbor
and asks his mother to tell her son to not tell horror stories to Dorsa
and she learns that the boy is mute. Then Kimia and Shideh's Jane Fonda
workout tape disappear. When a missile strikes their building, the
neighbors decide to leave Tehran, but Shideh stays in the apartment with
Dorsa, who is increasingly disturbed. Soon Shideh reads about Djinns
and finds that there is an evil ...
