10 4 Dah be alaveh chahar

After casting painter and video artist Mania Akbari as the central figure of his groundbreaking Ten 2002 and then witnessing her outstanding debut as a feature film director in 20 Fingers 2004 Abbas Kiarostami urged her to direct a sequel to the film In Dah be alaveh Chahar 10 4 though circumstances are different Mania is fighting cancer She has undergone surgery she has lost her hair following chemotherapy and no longer wears the compulsory headscarf and sometimes she is too weak to drive So the camera follows her to record conversations with friends and family in different spaces from the gondola she had famously used in her first feature to a hospital bed