With a sorrowful heart, she resigns herself to never seeing him again. For weeks, Roya tries desperately to contact him, but her efforts are fruitless. And, as their romance blossoms, the modest little stationery shop remains their favorite place in all of Tehran.Ī few short months later, on the eve of their marriage, Roya agrees to meet Bahman at the town square, but suddenly, violence erupts-a result of the coup d'etat that forever changes their country's future.
Fakhri, with a keen instinct for a budding romance, introduces Roya to his other favorite customer-handsome Bahman, who has a burning passion for justice and a love for Rumi's poetry-she loses her heart at once. She always feels safe in his dusty store, overflowing with fountain pens, shiny ink bottles, and thick pads of soft writing paper. Fakhri's neighborhood book and stationery shop. Roya is a dreamy, idealistic teenager living in 1953 Tehran who, amidst the political upheaval of the time, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr.
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