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A real-life situation based on a real incident in actual locations with actual people involved.

A philosophical hybrid of documentary and fiction that uses a real fraud case to probe the nature of identity, cinema, and authenticity through dignified restraint and layered ambiguity.

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.