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That Night is a blank except for the terrifying images popping up at random into ten-year-old Reza’s head—images of groping hands, swinging bottles, a woman beaten mercilessly. His mother and father are dead, and he does not know why. Living in an orphanage at the outskirts of Tehran, Reza has withdrawn into himself. To cope, he lives in the happy side of his imagination, daydreaming of the good days in the Third Garden where he lived before That Night.
He resolves escape from the hatred, anger, and torment.
After he is yet again thrashed for fighting, at midnight he scrapes a hole in the clay walls that surround his hell, climbs out, and finds his way to the foothills of the nearby Alborz Mountains. Penniless, hungry, and cold, he falls asleep in a pine forest. He wakes up to a kind, soothing voice belonging to a woman who looks like an older version of his mother. She is Paree Windom, an Iranian separated from her English husband, haunted by a horrifying event in her past. Filled with pity for the wretched orphan, she assumes Reza’s legal guardianship and moves him into her apartment.
Time strengthens their relationship, but it does not attain that of mother and son—they live in fear of yet again losing a loved one. While Reza feels increasingly at ease in his new home, he senses that Paree has her own dark secrets. Her husband, Mike, now living in western England, asks Paree and Reza to visit him. She reluctantly accepts—western England is the scene of the darkest chapter of her life. For the first few days, the visit is enjoyable, but on a rain-drenched evening, Mike walks into the house holding a bottle, a sight that triggers Reza’s horrific images of That Night. Panicking, he runs away and hides in the woods until Paree finds him. At Mike’s insistence, she and Reza meet informally with a friend, a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses their problem. She advises that they confront the scenes of their torment and discuss them openly. By venting the torment and baring their souls, they gain intervals of freedom from the prison for wretched souls.
He resolves escape from the hatred, anger, and torment.
After he is yet again thrashed for fighting, at midnight he scrapes a hole in the clay walls that surround his hell, climbs out, and finds his way to the foothills of the nearby Alborz Mountains. Penniless, hungry, and cold, he falls asleep in a pine forest. He wakes up to a kind, soothing voice belonging to a woman who looks like an older version of his mother. She is Paree Windom, an Iranian separated from her English husband, haunted by a horrifying event in her past. Filled with pity for the wretched orphan, she assumes Reza’s legal guardianship and moves him into her apartment.
Time strengthens their relationship, but it does not attain that of mother and son—they live in fear of yet again losing a loved one. While Reza feels increasingly at ease in his new home, he senses that Paree has her own dark secrets. Her husband, Mike, now living in western England, asks Paree and Reza to visit him. She reluctantly accepts—western England is the scene of the darkest chapter of her life. For the first few days, the visit is enjoyable, but on a rain-drenched evening, Mike walks into the house holding a bottle, a sight that triggers Reza’s horrific images of That Night. Panicking, he runs away and hides in the woods until Paree finds him. At Mike’s insistence, she and Reza meet informally with a friend, a psychiatrist who immediately diagnoses their problem. She advises that they confront the scenes of their torment and discuss them openly. By venting the torment and baring their souls, they gain intervals of freedom from the prison for wretched souls.