The Lion Women of Tehran

1950, Tehran. Seven-year-old Ellie lives in comfort, wanting for nothing, until the death of her father brings a drastic change in fortune. At school, she meets Homa. Together, the girls play games, wander through the Grand Bazaar and share their ambitions of becoming 'lion women' and the first generation of women fully working in Iran. Opportunity allows Ellie and her mother to return to their bourgeois life, and Ellie's memories of Homa fade.
But years later, her sudden reappearance in Ellie's privileged world alters the course of both of their lives. As the political turmoil in Iran builds to a breaking point, one earth-shattering betrayal will have enormous consequences.