- Granny! Granny! - What is the matter, dear?
Come here, Granny.
What's going on?
- Listen to what Mohammad is saying. - What is it, my son?
For God's sake, Granny, ask them to take me with them.
- But it is not possible, honey. - Yes, it is, please!
No, you have to stay with me, my son. Listen to me.
Bahareh! Hanieh! Wait! Take me with you!
Where are you going, Mohammad?
- Don't go with them. - I want to go!
No, stay here with me. Look! Don't you like Granny?
Please! I'd like to go with them.
Stay with Granny. Help her, sweetheart.
- Mohammad. - I want to go.
Don't cry. Why are you crying? When you cry, I feel so sad.
Don't cry, dear. I'd die for you.
- Come on. Let's go. - Granny, did he accept?
Yes, dear. Let's go.
- Hello, Mr. Ramezani. - Hello, sir.
- How are you? - Yes, I'm fine.
- Are you all right? - Yes.
I know how to read, sir. I know all my lessons.
Well done. We knew it, but today you are our guest.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
Go back, Granny. I'll come back home with Hanieh and Bahareh.
- Come in, please. Mr.? - Mohammad Ramezani.
Listen, everybody. Mohammad is our guest today.
Sir, let him sit beside me.
Be quiet! Why do you make such a noise?
Nasibe, go and sit over there.
Mohammad, sit here.
Zareie, continue reading the lesson.
Second graders, do your math problems.
Zareie, read.
"The sun brightens the earth.
Sunny days are warm and bright.
- A day when..." - "The day when..."
"The day when... the sun shone."
Not shone, shines.
- "Shines. The sun..." - "Warms..."
"The earth.
The nights that the moon shines, it..."
- " Brightens..." - " Brightens the earth.
The nights that the moon doesn't shine are dark."
Enough.
Mohammad, is there the same lesson in your book?
- Yes, sir. May I read? - Go ahead.
"The nights that the moon shines...
the moonlight brightens the earth.
The nights that the moon doesn't shine are dark."
Sir, now we go to the next lesson.
"Akram and Amin are sister and brother.
Amin is two years older than Akram.
When Akram studies, he helps her.
This brother and sister..."
What is the matter? Go back to your seats.
Mum!
What's happened?
- Have you sent Mohammad to school? - Well, what is the problem?
He will be miserable and lonely. He won't be able to go to Tehran to study.
I will take him away!
- Are you doing this to spite me? - It's you who are trying to spite me.
Granny! I've got twenty.
For the love of God, I beg you not to scold him.
- Teacher says I can go tomorrow. - I'll take him.
Take care of Mohammad, okay?
I want to come, Granny.
No, I'm going shopping. It's very far. Stay here. I will come back soon.
- Come soon. - I'll be back soon.
Let's play.
Mohammad, Hanieh.
Where is Mohammad?
Granny, Dad came and took Mohammad to show him the sea.
Come.
Don't go any further than the end of this rope.
Stop, boy! Stop!
- Let's go. - Don't we take the horse?
No, we go on foot.
It is a long way to the village. I will get tired.
We'll get there soon.
I hear cars.
It is not the way to the village.
Where are we going?
Let go of me. I won't go with you.
I want to stay with Granny!
Let me go!
This is Mohammad.
Hello. My name is Ali Fatemi. What is your surname?
I will call you Mohammad.
Well, well, well!
These hands say they can learn many things.
If there is nothing else, I'd like to leave.
Suit yourself.
Have a nice day. I'll visit you. It is a nice place.
- Good-bye. - Good-bye.
Let's go. I'll show you around.
This is a carpentry. I am blind like you.
I started this job when I was your age.
My father was a carpenter. I learned it from him.
This is a hallway.
And here is a small, but nice...
room for you.
I lived here for many years, but now I'm living...
on the second floor of this building.
Now, let's go out.
There is a pond with a lot of ducks on the left side.
Here is a part of the wood storage.
Now come and sit down.
The first step is to get familiar with wood.
To know that each kind of wood is suitable for a certain thing.
For instance, take this one. It's soft, isn't it?
This is a poplar which is suitable for carving.
Now take this one.
What's wrong? Are you crying? A man never cries.
- Do you already miss your family? - No.
Then what?
You know nobody loves me.
Not even Granny.
They all run away from me because I'm blind.
If I could see...
I would go to the local school with other children...
but now I have to go to the school for the blind...
on the other side of the world.
Our teacher says that God loves the blind more because they can't see...
but I told him if it was so, He would not make us blind...
so that we can't see Him.
He answered, "God is not visible."
He is everywhere. You can feel Him.
You see Him through your fingertips.
Now I reach out everywhere for God till the day my hands touch Him...
and tell Him everything, even all the secrets in my heart.
Your teacher is right.
Where are you going, Mother? What are you trying to do to me?
Only this way remains to me.
You want to spite me, don't you? I did it for his own good!
What am I to do now?
What have I done wrong to be stuck with taking care of...
a blind child for the rest of my life?
Who will look after me when I am old and weak?
Why doesn't that great God of yours help me out of this misery?
Why should I be grateful to Him? For the things I don't have?
For my miseries? For a blind child? For the wife I have lost?
I've put up with it for five solid years.
What do you think you've done for me?
That's who I am, a poor and miserable man.
I lost my father so early that I can hardly remember him!
Who helps me? Who cares for me? Go!
Go wherever you like.
Mother! Come back.
For God's sake, come back. You will get ill.
I beg you. I will kiss your hand.
Let's go back. I will lose face.
Bahareh! Give me a glass of water and a spoon.
When you pull it this way, it cuts.
Take it in your hand, carefully.
Then put it here, inside it, on the wood.
- Is it ready? - Yes.
Loosen your right hand, let it move with the movement of my hands. Smoothly.
Listen to its sound while it is going forward.
The sound is lower when it is going forward, while backward it is louder.
What does it do? It cuts. Listen.
Drink, dear Granny.
Bahareh, go to bed.
Mum, do you want me to bring Mohammad here?
Mum, do you want me to bring Mohammad home tomorrow?
Would you like me to bring Mohammad?
I'm worried about you, not him.
See? This is its head, its beak.
Here is its back and this is its tail.
Look here. This is its wing. Opening them, it flies.
You've got to concentrate your fingers on wood to feel everything you touch.
You need the delicate touch of your fingers to focus...
and to see with your heart.
This is its beak.
Well done.
No. You yourself check it carefully. Look at it from every angle.
Hello.
A small token.
Congratulations.
Today I called on Mohammad.
He is doing well.
I mean, if that is okay with you, I want to set the date of marriage...
in a couple of days.
- What should I do? - Take it.
- What for? - You will need them.
I don't need them. Your blessing will be enough for me.
No, take them.
Hello, Mr. Hashem. I have a message for you.
Come in.
Mr. Safari gave me these and said:
I'm sorry, this marriage is ominous for us.
Stop! Stop!
Get on.
Hey! Are you crazy?
Mohammad.
Do you know who has come?
I've come to take you home.
Mohammad!