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Beate is an ambitious executive working at EUROPA, a mysterious corporation looking to expand into the Balkans region. Seemingly promoting philanthropy, Europa actually needs to buy off lands from locals in a remote valley in Albania.

Iran 2008, a young couple is getting married in a mullah's office for a year. The bride price is 5 gold coins. It is a temporary marriage a Shia practice that allows a man and woman to marry for a limited period of time, which can last from one hour to 99 years. Temporary marriage offers a loophole for romantic relationships, extramarital sex or prostitution within the religious-patriarchal and repressive body politics of the Islamic Republic. The film follows a number of diverse protagonists whose stories are loosely connected. A lonely bachelor looking for an apartment needs a temporary wife because landlords do not rent out to singles. For two sisters, both single mothers, it's about the precarious state of their hard-won autonomy within a deeply misogynistic system. A young mullah tries mediate between religious dogma and a reality full of contradictions and gets into situations that are sometimes absurd or even comical.