The farewell between Habib and Sara, the way they exchanged those warm looks, the memory, and then his words: “Your home is where your heart is”, all remind us how love can be both sweet and painful at the same time; so close, yet slipping away.
Don’t miss the eleventh episode of the 30-part series tonight at 18:00 GMT. It will be repeated the next day at 00:00, 09:00 and 15:00.
The series, produced by Hassan Beshkoufeh as well as Abdollah Shahbazi and directed by Hassan Fathi, tells the life story of an Iranian boy who travels to Paris to study. There, he meets and falls in love with a young Jewish girl.
But when World War II breaks out, he's forced to return home, thus, he manages to smuggle the girl and her mother to Iran in order to save them from the Nazis who've occupied France.
While Iran itself is occupied by foreign forces, the young man helps to launch a newspaper focused on preserving and promoting the country's heritage and culture.
But it won’t be easy since political intrigues threaten to destroy everything he holds dear.
The most notable on the cast list are Roya Teimourian, Shahab Hosseini, Ateneh Faqih-Nasiri, Laya Zanganeh, Iraj Rad, Masoud Rayegan, Nathalie Matti, Rahim Norouzi, Ahmad Saatchian, Payam Dehkordi, Ali Qorbanzadeh, Sadreddin Shajareh, and Farrokh Nemati.