The Script

Two European artists travel to Washington, DC with the intention to co-opt the American plans for Iran to use in a large-scale art happening in Iran. To their surprise, they find themselves co-opted as agents for the US. They are sent to Iran via Dubai to gather intelligence and to identify possible partners to the US Government. Inside Iran they hire a local film photographer, a driver and an interpreter, travelling through Iran under the pretence of wanting to engage in an intercultural dialogue. Acting beyond their American mandate they seek to instigate a democratic revolution, attempting to mobilize the Iranian people for a new ‘Movement’, a re-enactment of the collective movement that caused the overthrow of the Shah in the ’79 revolution.The Iranian regime discovers the real intentions of the Europeans and the two are sent to the infamous ‘Evin’ prison. In the meantime Washington realizes that their European partners had been triple dealing them all along and sends orders for their assassination to the American embassy in Dubai. Concurrently, an Iranian court denounces the two as agents for ‘the Great Satan’ and issues a death sentence. As they await hanging, their fate has the world media spellbound. Because of their accelerating prominence, the Iranian President decides to pay them a visit. The Europeans succeed in winning over his sympathy as they explain that their role as secret agents was a cover for the intention to hijack the American plan. The president pardons the two and they are soon after released. As they walk to the car of the interpreter an American sniper shoots the two from a nearby roof terrace. In parallel events it turns out that the new movement has taken roots and spread throughout Iran. Different from the events in ’79, ‘the movement’ not only causes the downfall of the Iranian regime but spreads to all corners of the globe.