Gradually

Mahmoud (Mohammad-Reza Foroutan) is a railway welder whose job keeps him far from home and his young wife Pari (Niloofar Khoshkholgh), who has a nervous disorder that falls under the classification of a mental illness. When he learns that she has mysteriously disappeared, he is worried and asks his boss for some time off. Mahmoud returns home in the pouring rain to an empty place; his wife has taken their young daughter to stay with relatives and has fled with some money. This embarrassing situation has generated plenty of gossip in the neighborhood, especially by their landlady.