مهر مادری (1998)

Mrs. Mina Fahimi (Fatemeh Motamed-Arya) works as a social worker at a boys’ juvenile correction and rehabilitation center. One of the delinquent boys, Mehdi (Hossein Soleimani), lost his father, who was a truck driver, in an accident. His mother also died while giving birth to her second child, but Mehdi refuses to accept that she is dead. After seeing a photograph of himself with his mother, he sees a resemblance between Mrs. Fahimi and his mother. Having obtained her address, he asks her to be his mother. The social worker refuses, but Mehdi insists on staying until nightfall, when she finally invites him inside. After Mehdi repeatedly visits Mrs. Fahimi’s home, she informs the authorities, but they fail to catch him and he escapes. Mehdi comes to the social worker’s home again, but this time Mrs. Fahimi is harsher with him because he took her daughter to the market without permission to buy a Mother’s Day gift. When the children return, staff from the center arrest Mehdi. The next day, when Mrs. Fahimi’s neighbor gives her the gift Mehdi had bought for Mother’s Day, she regrets what she did and goes to see Mehdi, but…