My obsession with this book, and the reason I made this into a film, is because it at once was addressing the question of being a female -- traditionally, historically in Iran -- and the question of four women who are all looking for an idea of change, freedom and democracy -- while the country of Iran, equally, as if another character, also struggled for an idea of freedom and democracy and independence from the foreign interventions.
Moja opsesija s tom knjigom, i razlog zbog kojeg sam je pretvorila u film, je zato jer je jednom adresirala pitanje kako je biti žena -- tradicionalno, povijesno u Iranu -- i pitanje četiriju žena koje traže ideju promjene, slobode i demokracije -- dok se država Iran, jednako tako, poput drugog lika, borila za ideju slobode i demokracije i neovisnosti od stranih intervencija.