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An anonymous filmmaker returns from Paris to Tehran for the 2013 Iranian elections. She follows the television coverage with friends on the couch. They provide the images with ironic and sneering comments and thereby give the news material the critical dimension that is missing in the political campaigns. At the same time, criticism from the bank is also disappointing and desperate about the coming elections, with the violent repression of the demonstrations after the corrupt 2009 elections still in mind.