The film is named after a neighborhood in western Tehran called Shahr-e ziba in Farsi, which can be translated as “Beautiful City”. Tehran’s Center for Correction and Rehabilitation, the juvenile detention center featured in the film, is located in that district.[1][2]
Plot
Akbar celebrates his 18th birthday in Tehran’s Center for Correction and Rehabilitation. He has been held in the juvenile detention center for committing murder at the age of sixteen when he was condemned to death. Legally speaking, he had to reach the age of eighteen so that the conviction could be carried out. Now, Akbar is transferred to prison to await the day of his execution. A'la, a friend of Akbar, who himself has undergone imprisonment for burglary, soon after his release tries desperately to gain the consent of Akbar's plaintiff so as to stop the execution.
