A fortune cookie writer who can't sleep searches for love while haunted by the war she escaped.
Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.
Acting
Anaita Wali Zada's debut is devastatingly restrained
Direction
Jalali's deadpan patience lets silence scream
Writing
Fortune cookie poetry as existential cry for help
Director
Babak Jalali
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