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The entire movie Life + 1 Day, and the selected scene in particular, presents a dilemma for a poverty-stricken family over the youngest daughter’s supposedly willing choice to marry a rich Afghan, but which means she must leave her struggling family that includes her ill mother who is a homebound widow, a drug abusing brother, and another one in withdrawal stage. Because of the many family problems, Somayeh is pressured by her brother to marry the rich Afghan in return for money to start his own new business. In this film, Roustayi presents the 21st century problems for Somayeh who is trapped by the demands dictated by a culture that offers her few choices.

A Scene from Life + 1 Day 2016 (Abad va Yek Rooz) by Saeed Roustayi '' Mohsen: Somayeh, on what grounds you plan on leaving mom alone? Whenever you're not home your sisters don't feed her food or water, so she doesn't have to go to the bathroom. I'm asking you not to leave because I don't know who this guy is. Because mom is sick and if you go, she'll be done. Because our home and life will reek. But if you go, don't ever come back. Because they will no longer say their Azam won't remarry; that their Leila chooses not to marry. They will say that the problem is with them. Think about us. Don't turn us into a laughing stock of the neighborhood.

Morteza: That's tears from a high.

Shahnaz: She's seen Nazir. She says he's a good person.

Mohsen: He may be a good person, but she doesn't love him. She loves someone else, she still looks at his photos. I once saw them in the streets and I punched him in the face. And I didn't let her go back to her sewing class. Please don't go Somayeh. If you're leaving us because of me, don't.''

Roustayi, the 28-year-old writer and director, relied on his camera lens and the indirect language of his screenplay to depict the prevailing social conditions of a struggling and impoverished family, as well as the marginalization and victimization of women. In this way, Roustayi and other Iranian filmmakers present the very real conditions and struggles of people in Iran that reflect very similar struggles of people around the world. In Life + 1 Day, Roustayi reveals how poverty and various conditions of power and class struggle present challenges for individuals and families.