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Takes the viewer straight into a divorce hearing at the Family Law Courts in central Tehran and to the heart of the conditions that means marriage to a woman in Iran, as a husband pleads at his defence: ‘She goes out without permission’. The judge advises the wife that since it is her husband who is filing for divorce, she should return home and make herself attractive so that he might reconsider their situation. This documentary tackles the issues of women in contemporary Iranian society concentrating on three cases. Jamileh, who punishes her husband for beating her; Ziba, a 16-year-old girl appealing for divorce from her 38-year-old husband; and Maryam who is fighting for the custody of her daughters. Divorce Iranian Style shows not only the despair and the anger but also the small victories and utopian moments that three women – all trying to get a divorce – go through.