1 An Iranian woman's husband has an accident at home... and she just watches him die
[An Iranian woman's husband has an accident at home... and she just watches him die] is shown
A woman is doing laundry, her husband and her are arguing about schooling for their daughter, he's advocating for her to go to school but she isn't and is on the opposite side, they live in America, no one takes the man from Iran's side.
It is in Iranian, not English, no subtitles will be provided.
A week later, they talk to each other casually and be kind to each other, but it's in Iranian, no subtitles provided.
She's taking care of the baby, she's doing the house work, and he's sitting down playing a video game, she's talking to him about how cool it is and how she would like to play to, and he agrees to let her play in their language, no subtitles are provided.
One day, he's playing with his oldest 8-year-old daughter, "Let's play hide and seek!" he says, he hides and his daughter goes to counts,
and when he hears a child's screams he runs to help her, then he lets the child out of the hole, and then he goes home, one day, he falls into a hole, not just any hole, an empty well, his wife tries to help him, but he's fat and heavy, he falls down after she tells him to hold on and let him go carefully to keep him in grip but he falls in her view as she tries to get help.
She was just looking back at him, then on the news, the story breaks out that the woman, her, lets a man die. Her name is Afareen.
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Just then, they're all in a café and the news comes on, she's crying, she knows English, then a white woman and black woman say to each other, "As soon as I heard they were Iranian, I knew exactly why she let him die." says the white woman, the wife is still being investigated, she told the Iranian police officer what happened but in Iranian in a flashback, no subtitles provided.
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"The entire time I'm like 'Thank God he's dead! Thank God he is dead!'" the black woman says in English,
"'Where's my cigarette?' 'Where's my arm salve?'
'Where's my barbell with like 8 billion lbs. on it?'...
I think he deserved to die." the white lady giggles with her as she mocks the husband for, in her ideas, being abusive.
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"She had every right to let him die like that, the men in Iran are no joke!" the black woman says, Afareen's daughters know the news report and her mother does to, Afareen was on it, in person, they cry in silence because the whole family can hear the two and know what they're talking about.
Afareen has 1 son and three daughters.
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"He deserves it" someone says in a store one day, a man.
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"He was a pain in the behind. I wonder if my sister's husband would be interested in visiting a well..." his wife tells him, the people got to see footage of them in the house, them arguing and them talking casually, the couple kept cameras to see if the kids were just blaming each other for their own crimes.
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"Why though? He didn't seem abusive. You never know.." a little girl says to an adult, "These men are horrible." the woman says to her.
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"Hmm gotta love how when they mostly show ethnic people, they're usually wife beaters and or delinquents." a man says in rage.
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The wife, Afareen, is getting tired of this and walks out of the store, Afareen isn't with the kids and they're with her mom who knew her husband.
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An Iranian man says "You all, what's with the double standards, as if we wouldn't be up in arms against him if he let her die at the well? I see people cheering around here and the hypocrisy is unreal.
This is messed up."
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She looks at him in shock that he said that, he said it just as she and he was about to leave the store, he's the only person besides the child who said something in her husband's defense in front of her and possibly even meant to for her sake, maybe. "You are nothing but a wife beater!"
a white woman says in rage.
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Now, Afareen and her four children are In the park...
"I like how smart she is, she went in showing the children she was shocked, so the kids would remember her being surprised," a black woman says, they are now in the park, "Mommy, did you really kill dad?" Afareen's son says, "No, baby." Afareen replies in shock that'd he asked her that, but he only did it because of what others said.
"You let him die!" her, Afareen's, little girl says and runs away.
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"helping someone with chores is not a big deal to let them die.... then there is no difference between you or them... no place for morals and humanity.... you can't blame a person as being bad if you yourself has no morals" one man says in anger, "How could they say that about my husband?" Afareen says in English.
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"What ever story those woman give I cannot believe they enjoy bein' treated like dirt. The choice she made was probably pure desperation and in the process she has saved her daughter as well." a woman say to another, "Treated like dirt?" Afareen's daughter says, the 5 year old, "Mommy, how was daddy towards you?" she asks, her mother looks at her in shock, the youngest daughter says "He was wonderful!" she is 3, the son says "My daddy loved you and you let him die!!" then he ran off into the bushes. Afareen has to run after saying "It was an accident!"
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"Dang he took long too die." a black woman says, "A real shame that this couldn't happen to a few million Muslims...."
a man says.
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"But she can never be at peace... Her conscience will not let her... He might be the worst husband but as a human she couldn't let him die... Her saving him might have changed his attitude, he could have turned into a loving husband... Anyone can change." a man says in a proud way.
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One day, she went to an airport...
"I'm kinda of sick of people believing the husband was evil with no clues to suggest that. Honestly I think she tried to save her husband but realized immediately that she couldn't save him. But if she would have stayed and tried to save him knowing that she would likely not be able to help him she would receive a huge backlash from his family and relatives, blaming her for his death. Knowing what she feared is very real, I'm amazed by her decision even though she loved her husband most likely. " a man says in response to the hate on T.V.
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"I'm wondering if she suspected him of cheating? He may have been pretty distant to her and the baby in the morning." a black woman says.
"I'm not a murderer!" Afareen yells, they were watching the T.v. in an airport.
Afareen works there. "She had the right to let him die while he killed all of her emotions." a woman says to her husband, "Stop it, just stop it!"
Afareen cries as she runs away from the airport and goes to her home and locks the doors. "I'm not going outside again!" Afareen says to her four children.
an hour later, her son yells "My daddy is better than your (bleep) ideas about him!" at the T.V.
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"No, we do not curse!" his mom says, "Brutal treatment of women in Islam countries is horrible. If this were to happen, she could comfort herself that is was just Allah's will for him to die. There are still real men in these countries who do genuinely love and are very protective of their wives against the society and government they know would harm her given the chance. They treat their wives as first in all considerations and even privately at home as their equal and better half." the man on T.V. says "He's a good man!" her daughter, the 8 year old says, "I hate you!" the five year old screams and then the three year old cries, her son is nine years old.
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"He appeared to be normal, average, not unkind, not an abusive Muslim husband. She had a job and earnings after all. More to do with being forced to marry your cousin because a pair of inbred brothers promised their own children would marry each other while they were still babies, or she was forced to marry a stranger she had never met till her wedding night. She wanted her own life, not the one that was forced upon her. She wanted to be free."
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A stranger said. "I'm sorry, Darius." Afareen says to her nine year old son, her eight year old daughter, Golshan, says "Why do people hate my dad!"
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"Golshan, he's an Iranian man." Habibeh, the five year old says, "Habibeh!" her mother says, "GordiA, I want you to go get me a Popsicle." her son says, "people will think you're a jerk for doing that cuz you're Iranian." the five year old says.
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"Habibeh, why do you say things like that?!" Habibeh's mom says to her as she plays with her toys,
"Because daddy was nice and they think he's mean." she gets a coloring book, she starts to draw on a clear page in the book a picture of her daddy,
she's coloring a picture of mean people putting dirt on her daddy.
"Habibeh..." her mother says in sadness and shock.
"Why did they think that, mommy?" Habibeh asks, worried
"People don't care if your happy or unhappy to wives as an Iranian man, they don't like you." Habibeh says in tears.
"I will tell them but in English what happened in their relationship, okay."
her daughter, GordiA says.
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6 weeks later...
In a school, in front of a news camera.
Her mother tells her in Iranian, with subtitles, that "I'll tell them for you, if they think he's a mean man to me, they'll believe me over you, my daughter."
In the classroom with a news reporter and some camera men filming her as the teacher and students watch...
"I'm Afareen, I'm the lonely, disheartened, angry wife of my husband, abbAs, my husband who,"
Narration, his wife when we were arguing (subtitles provided to the arguing in the background)
was telling me to let our child go to school, because we were in America and there was equal opportunities for us as men and women. That is why we were arguing that day.
I was against it, not for it, but he was and they all ended up in school. I willingly agreed due to his persistence.
(Iranians are watching, they clap for her.)
In the next scene, you see us talking while he plays video games? He was saying I could come when I was finished, I willingly did the house work.
It doesn't mean he should die if I wasn't and he just wasn't willing, I loved him and I wanted to do it.
(she's crying, now) and I will never forget what he did for our daughter, he lifted her up out of a hole, she was playing hide and seek with him and he ran after her, he picked her up and he got her home safely.
He was kind to me and he was no monster, I was trying to save him, I needed to- I needed to go get help, he is heavy and he- he couldn't- I couldn't get him out of the well and I needed to pull him out, but I couldn't, I was weak, I tried to find help so I carefully placed his hands back on the well's surface, so as not to accidentally throw him into it but he fell regardless, I saw him, I looked back and he was gone...
I gave him everything and he returned the favor with love! (she says that in hate and anger)
(in the classroom, no more her narrating the scene, now, she's talking to the camera and people all over the world to tell them that)
"YOU DON'T KNOW MY LOVING HUSBAND!!!" she says, bawling.
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"the perfect murder" a white woman says watching the mother and bawling wife on the television, and her husband screams, "WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
On the T.V. Afareen screams, "My gosh!"
Flashback... Afareen's narration: "He wasn't my cousin!" as the story shows a happily married couple, her and her late husband at a happy wedding, "We chose to marry, I proposed, he said yes!" as it shows her proposing standing up awkwardly as he awkwardly seems to reply yes in a weird but kind stance with a funny look of happiness in his eyes and face.
Subtitles are provided with every flashback in the narration of his wife.
The End.
