A is for apple, as Mahdi learns on his very first day at school and immediately agrees to bring the class a whole basket full on Apple Day. After all, his older brother Saeed and their father sell many kilos of the bright red fruit in the streets leading through the high-rise buildings of the Tehran outer-suburb. At home, the boys’ mother earns money washing clothes. When the truck gets stolen, the family’s already precarious existence begins to crumble. Meanwhile, Saeed feels responsible to fill the basket of apples promised for his little brother’s class. A complex tapestry of neorealist narrative strands, Mahmood Ghaffari’s film tells the story of a new beginning filled with setbacks and loving solidarity.