Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who has been barred from leaving the country, arrives at a village on the Iran-Turkey border to supervise a film based on a real-life couple seeking passports to Europe being shot in Turkey, but both his stay and the production run into trouble.

Director's first non-genre feature film is a strictly +18, erotic, punk and emotional love letter to French New Wave which sets in the dog days of summer.