An Agent Named Parviz

Parviz is a mysterious creature. The Iranians say he’s dead. They also often take pleasure in recounting the circumstances under which the men on Khomeini’s orders executed him... He was working for the CIA, but ended up selling his talents to the French secret service. And so Kiana, an Iranian musician, finds herself listening to his confession in a nondescript house in the suburbs of Paris. As he holds her attention, she discovers that her husband Nasser, an Iranian nuclear scientist, has decided to switch to the West. At which point the house becomes the stage of a tense closed-door theatre, overseen by a young DGSE intelligence recruit, who must shortly investigate the disappearance of his friend Parviz...