Payman Maadi

It’s 1988 and at the height of the Iran-Iraq War, Tehran is bombed relentlessly. The days that pass are full of foreboding, and yet love, affection, hope and life itself manage to sweep away the fear of death from those surrounded by it. Love may often be difficult to comprehend, but death is a horrible certitude. Bomb, A Love Story shows how, even when faced with the darkness of death, love and hope will find a way.

Amir and Sara are a young couple from Tehran about to leave for Australia to continue their studies in Melbourne. But a few hours before their plane leaves they find themselves in an unforeseen drama. They neighbors' babysitter is gone and she has left the baby at their charge. In the hustle of preparing for the trip they don't realize that the baby is not actually sleeping on their bed but that it's not breathing because it's dead. What was to be a simple favor becomes a never ending nightmare. Amir and Sara's actual trip starts far from their airport, at their own place. Their apartment, half empty and without personal touches, becomes a claustrophobic purgatory, an actual existential crossroad.