A woman journalist Rahimi travels to the Iranian city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain, because the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. The film is based on the true story of the ‘Spider Killer’ Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself on a mission from God when he killed 16 women between 2000 and 2001.

Ali Abbasi (b. 1981, Iran) is a writer and director, who studied Direction at the National Film School of Denmark. His debut, ‘Shelley’ (2016) premiered at Berlinale. He is best known for ‘Border’ (2018), which premiered in Cannes, and won the Jury Prize in Un Certain Regard.