Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iran to Denmark at her husband's insistence. However, she encounters a quiet young girl who seems lost and doesn't remember anything. Roya takes the girl in, unaware that the girl has abandoned her previous life and now comes to replace Roya.
A couple of days later, Roya finds out that she will be prohibited from leaving Iran unless she sells out a colleague to the government authorities. Soon after, Roya refuses to betray her friend, but the young girl steals Roya's identity and takes over her life with the help of Roya's husband, Babak. As Roya fights to recover her identity, she realizes to her surprise that no one remembers her anymore and everyone takes the lost girl as their own.
Babak throws Roya out of the house, at which point the authorities decide that Roya is to be exiled to another life as a passive housewife named Hanieh.
