For All of Us

I was only seventeen when I was thrown into the turbulent sea of Iranian political and social upheaval of the 80s. Unlike many of my friends, I survived living through the revolution, a semi-civil war and an eight-year war with the neighbouring country.

Although I have managed to have a peaceful life in a lovely corner of the world, the wounds of those years were never healed. For all these years, the innocent eyes of young adults and children severely punished by the Islamic regime have been asking me to tell their story to the world. Sometimes I think that I survived that deadly hell to tell the heartbreaking story of my innocent friends.

This is the story of teenagers and children who got

caught up in a political and religious game they had no idea of its rules.

This story happened in one of the darkest periods in

my country's history and

is a lament on lost lives

and humanity.

This is a testimony of the dark ages we experienced for future generations.

The places, characters, and events in this story are

based on reality, although the names have been changed and sometimes the

characters, events, and locations have been merged or separated.

Piran Farhoudi - London 2022