Born of heroin addicts, a young Iranian boy called Daan (Don) seeks work without his birth certificate. The film is an engrossing, unsentimental drama, the primary focus of which is a young boy whose quest for work takes on a heightened, existentialist weight, not only due to the absurdity of his economic plight (he's 9 years of age) but because of the lengths he has to go in order to convince those around him to employ him in the absence of a birth certificate and thus, essentially, an identity.