Billed as "the first Iranian vampire Western," the film follows the desperate inhabitants of the fictional Iranian ghost town Bad City. There's Arash (Arash Marandi), a beautiful young man with a good heart, a cool car, a pained expression and the swagger of James Dean. His no-good junkie father (Marshall Manesh) gets them on the wrong side of an unpredictable pimp (Dominic Rains), who cloaks himself in hideous tattoos and gaudy jewelry to prove his badass status. There's a melancholy prostitute (Mozhan Marno), and a young street urchin (Milad Eghbali) groping for change. And then there's The Girl (Sheila Vand in a role that should make her iconic).
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