Different families face a similar crisis and react according to their specific points of view. It is a Persian drama film about several couples realizing that they are going to have a baby, and each of these couples' lives play out in different episodes through the film.[1]
The film revolves around the theme of abortion and its main message can be interpreted as "a child who is invited to this world should not be aborted" even if it is from a 60 year old, widow or a concubine who likes her job more than her child, or a wandering woman in a city that is distancing herself from her plumper husband. One critic described it as "a movie about abortions in which no abortions happen".[2]
This episode of the film which about two university students Pejman Bazeghi is eliminated after the filming which is considered due to censorship treatments, but Ebrahim Hatamikia considers it as the result of time shortages in the limited boundary for a film.[3]
^Alvandipour, Vandad (3 December 2008). "بودن یا نبودن". Aftabir (in Persian). Retrieved 24 October 2018. .فیلمی درباره سقط جنین که در آن هیچ سقط جنینی اتفاق نمیافتد[permanent dead link]