It's election day in an extremely remote area in Iran: so remote that the ballot box has to be parachuted down. As it lands, an odd team of voting authorities arrive: a soldier (Abidi) from a local barracks and a young female pollster (Abidi), with whom he is assigned to work. But the voters don't come to them; they must seek them out. Abidi the pollster is determined to get every last vote, while Abidi the soldier has his own issues with orders from a woman. In tracking down the electorate, things get a bit out of hand (one potential voter is almost run over as they try to get him to cast a ballot) and veers towards the absurd. Closely following the U.S. voting scandal in Florida in 2000, this latest entry from Iran's rich film community shows the humor of the election process, even in a place so far removed.

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