Darling, who co-wrote the Tehran-set romantic thriller along with fellow Baha’i and husband Clark Donnelly, deliberately explores themes of faith, morality and forgiveness through a love story between two young Iranians: Layla (Parmiss Sehat), a Baha’i woman who faces persecution for her faith, and Dr. Sasan Naderi (Behtash Fazlali), a young secular Muslim neurologist who treats a hospitalized Layla, only to fall in love with her.
“We’re just letting people kind of enjoy the characters for a little bit, before we drop that bomb on them,” Darling tells The Hollywood Reporter after a screening for the Persian and English language drama at the Hamilton Film Festival. Soon enough,…
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