Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten with her mother and sisters to join her father in exile in France. Now twenty-five, facing the future and the prospect of motherhood, Kimiâ is overwhelmed by a flood of her own memories and her ancestors' stories. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk, with his harem of 52 wives, and her parents, Darius and Sara, stalwart opponents of Iran's ever regime.
Punk-rock aficionado Kimiâ is a Scheherazade of our time, a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization."