Going By

This variation on the road movie follows four separate carloads of people as they simultaneously traverse the same highway from Tehran to the Caspian Sea: a widow and a woman who had an affair with her husband; a widower and his terminally ill son; a film critic and his rebellious sons; and a hearse driver with a dark sense of humor. Their stories occasionally intersect, but the film is for the most part devoted to the individual dramas unfolding in each vehicle and developing them into a larger meditation on travel as a metaphor for life.