Silence of the Sea

Settled comfortably in Sweden with his wife and two children Siavash finds himself at middle age consumed with guilt for having abandoned his parents when he left Iran many years before A hasty attempt to return finds Siavash stranded in the free port of Qeshm a sort of island nomansland and departure point for smugglers where the locals are as puzzled by this backwardsfleeing refugee as he is by their unfamiliar customs