At the dawn of Nowruz 2021, amid a global pandemic, Dr. Abraham Macdonald, an ageing New York physician, prepares to honour his dead son. What begins as a quiet memorial turns into a reckoning with a life shaped by war, revolution, and loss.
From wartime Chicago to revolutionary Iran, Abraham’s journey spans eight turbulent decades. Through love and captivity, political upheaval and private grief, he begins to see the thread that has carried him forward all along.
“Those who do not know story remain bound to tale. Our roots lie not in blood or soil; we grow from yesterday’s tales and blossom in today’s stories.” As Abraham entrusts his final confession to Mythra, his son’s widow, he leaves the next generation a way to understand freedom and survival—a way of seeing, shaped by story, for a world in search of release.
