The woman with the red hair

How decisive for the rest of our lives is the first love experience? Or is what defines our fate is the power of history and myths? In the mid-1980s, while the well-known master Mahmoud and his teenage assistant Cem dig a well in a difficult piece of land to find water, a mysterious woman, actress of a traveling troupe, every night in her open-air theater narrates old fairy tales and stories to the viewers. The Woman with the red hair, centered on Cem‘s love, drags us into the maelstrom of a great human crime. It tells us the acquaintance of the young hero with love, jealousy, responsibility, independence, deals with the relationship between father and son, "authoritarianism", formation of personality. Two deadly sins, patronage and infanticide, will concern the reader, who will once again meet with two fundamental works of the western and eastern world, Oedipus Tyrant of Sophocles and Rüstem and Suhrab of Iran Firdushi, and will wonder how our ordinary lives are affected by old texts.