“Undeniably arresting.”
—Screen International

“Venomous…Compellingly indignant…horrifying.”
—Indiewire

“A movie that takes a well-worn genre and turns it on its head, dishing out more surprises than expected while delivering a message heard loud and clear.”
—The Hollywood Reporter

In the face of a lackluster response from law enforcement to a series of horrific murders, a journalist (Zar Amir Ebrahimi, winner of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award) enters the city’s dark underbelly to engage in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a family man on a moral crusade to rid his beloved holy city of Mashhad of its sex workers. Writer-director Ali Abbasi (BORDER) unflinchingly brings to life the true story of a serial killer and the society that created him in Denmark’s official submission to the International Feature Oscar race.