A modern Azerbaijani woman’s life is non stop all day as she juggles traditional and secular roles, her life subsumed by service for others while rarely getting the respect she deserves. Throughout the film we see how things are changing in progressive Azerbaijan, and how some things don’t change; like her, it is a country at a crossroads of seeming contradictions. This is the story of "a" woman, elements of whom are universal.
Tahmina Rafaella
Director, Writer

Tahmina Rafaella
Leyli

Vidadi Aliyev
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Eldar Mammadov
Arif
Rasim Mammadov
Friend

Zaur Shafiyev
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Javid Zaidov
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