An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye unfolds like a real-life courtroom thriller, with stakes as high as life and death. Years after killing her abusive husband in an act of self-defense, Tahereh now faces execution unless she can pay the diya—blood money demanded by her abuser’s family. With the clock ticking and public sympathy running low, her son Mohsen is thrust into a desperate race against time to save his mother’s life. With unprecedented access to private negotiations, legal proceedings, and intimate family moments, the filmmakers bring us deep inside a harrowing moral and legal labyrinth.  Taut, emotional, and deeply human, An Eye for an Eye moves beyond a single narrative of guilt or innocence, revealing the collision of grief, belief, and survival that defines everyone caught in the case. The film lays bare the personal costs of a justice system shaped by patriarchal and religious law — and the enduring humanity on all sides of a story where mercy and vengeance are inseparable.