Fireflies
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A melancholic portrait of a displaced Iranian man finding tentative connection and self-discovery amid exile in a tropical Mexican port town.
Ramin flees from persecution in Iran and ends up living in the limbo of exile, far from everything he knows, in the tropical port town of Veracruz, Mexico. There his nostalgia and melancholy are confronted with new friendships, while he starts to rediscover his own desires.
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