Afghan’s entry for the Academy Awards’ Best Foreign Language Film is based on a true story that happened in Afghanistan. A small factory on the outskirts of Teheran illegally employs Afghan asylum seekers living with their families in old shipping containers or modest shacks in nearby shanty towns. Romance secretly blooms between a young Iranian working at the factory and the daughter of an illegal Afghan worker. When the police finally discover the illegal workers, the pair makes a fateful decision.