Love Child (2019)

synopsis

Iranian couple Leila and Sahand had an affair while they were married to other people, a crime in Tehran, punishable with execution. They can't acknowledge that four-year-old Mani is their illegitimate son, because that would constitute proof of their adultery. So the trio leave their homeland, taking refuge in Turkey while they seek asylum to Canada or the US. Filmed over five years with remarkable access to the family's happiest and hardest moments, this is an intimate and poignant portrait of their quest to be together, as they battle both Iranian and European law, their lives stuck in limbo.