Through the Olive Trees

The collaboration between director Abbas Kiarostami and assistant director Jafar Panahi marked the beginning of a partnership that yielded three films.

A film crew arrives in a small town devastated by a recent earthquake. Hossein, a young bricklayer, is cast in a small role as a newlywed husband. The woman who is to play his wife is Tahereh, the girl he adores but who refuses to have anything to do with him.

As the director attempts to get the two young people to play their roles in the script, Tahereh and Hossein enact their own drama and conflict in front of the camera.