Our Summer in Tehran follows filmmaker and long-time Globe Trekker host Justine Shapiro, a Jewish-American, and her six-year-old son to Iran. Over the course of three months, Justine and Mateo share daily life in Tehran with three very different middle-class families in realms rarely given media attention—in their homes, at their jobs, in playgrounds and in cafés. Equipped with a head-covering and instruction on the complex Persian system of manners, Justine finds herself caught up in the all-too-common power plays that exist among the various ministries in Iran.
