The story takes place in the present moment, Iran (a Muslim country).
The male protagonist is a literature teacher in a school. The film uses several story scenes such as saving people in a dilapidated house and understanding of the female passengers in the same way, completing the character of the male protagonist (kindness, integrity, empathy).
In the second half of the movie, the male protagonist's lover was sexually assaulted or attempted by a stranger while taking a bath, and left some money (prostitution money) (by the way, the original tenant of the house where the male protagonist's family lived should be a prostitute)
Since then, in this religious country, women have to wrap their heads in order to go out. Therefore, no matter how much the male protagonist loves his wife, he cannot resist the impact of traditional concepts. Under the coercion of the neighbors' gossip, the male protagonist becomes more and more determined. The idea of finding the murderer and never reconciling is what he did in the end.
The genius of the screenwriter and director is that the door is opened from before the heroine takes a shower, the door is opened little by little, and then it is left blank.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist finds the murderer (an elderly man who appears to be in his 60s, suffering from heart disease and claustrophobia), who is also a kind-hearted man who is afraid that his wife and daughter will know about it. At the same time, in order to preserve the self-esteem of men, a tug-of-war to pray for forgiveness and unwillingness to reconcile begins. The ending...
In my opinion, it is completely in line with the ordering of male (human nature)
Self-esteem > Forgiveness (Actually, the male protagonist once had compassion)
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