Following the
disastrous knock - on
effects when a middle - class couple, who still love each other deeply, but are cripplingly divided on the future (Simin sees no future in the restrictive nation, Nader has to stay to care for his Alzheimers afflicted father), seek a
divorce, it displays Asghar Farhadi as one
of the great humanist filmmakers working today; he has empathy for everyone the camera points its lens at, from the couple's daughter to the brutish husband
of their new employee, even as they do terrible things.