Unfinished Song

Unfinished Song stars AliReza Anoushfar as Farhad a young musicologist who returns to his birthplace Irans Khorasan province to record and preserve the regions traditional folk songs When he gets there he discovers that of the regions oncerich musical tradition only a few songs are still performed mainly because women are banned from singing He also finds out about a woman named Heyran Ghogha Bayat who has been imprisoned for that very reason and he becomes determined to find her and record her voice His meetings with her in jail open up another mystery that connects his family to hers and reveals how her steadfast love of music has doomed her to a life of persecution