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When the mind survives trauma, which affects everyone differently, it can in some cases process the pain by omitting peripheral details. In doing so, deep hurt can be channelled into one specific detail.
It can be anything. An image. An object. A smell. Anything.
The brain latches onto a detail, a survival mechanism creating a focal point which evolves to become a locked box. You can live with it, but you can never forget its presence.
For Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), that detail is a sound. Specifically, the squeak made by a prosthetic leg. When he hears the unmistakable wheeze for the first time in years in his place of business, his locked box is flung open, and his tormented memories pour out.
“Peg Leg” (Ebrahim Azizi) isn’t a family man whose car has broken down after accidentally hitting a dog. He’s not a customer who has left his daughter and pregnant wife in the car to seek assistance in a nearby repair shop. For Vahid, he’s the former intelligence officer who brutally tortured him - and countless others - for years in
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