The coming-of-age sto­ry of a pre­co­cious and out­spo­ken young Iranian girl that beg­ins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the fun­da­men­ta­lists first take power–forcing the veil on women and impri­so­ning thou­sands. The sto­ry then fol­lows her as she cle­ver­ly out­smarts the „social guar­di­ans” and dis­co­vers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the ter­ror of govern­ment per­se­cu­ti­on. Then Marjane’s jour­ney moves on to Austria whe­re, as a teen­ager, her par…