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Lili and Goli have argued endlessly about where their mother, Bibijan, should live since the Iranian Revolution. They disagree about her finances, too, which remain blocked as long as she insists on waiting on her son--still missing but not presumed dead yet--to return from the Iran-Iraq war. But once they begin "sharing" the old woman, sending her back and forth between Paris and Los Angeles, they begin asking themselves where the money might be coming from. Only their Persian half-sister in Iran and the Westernized granddaughter of the family have the courage to face up to the answers, and only when Bibijan finally relinquishes the past can she remember the truth