Bloody

By Mehdi Yazdani Khoram

In a city haunted by loss and unfinished stories, Mohsen Meftah, a young man struggling to fund his studies in Beirut, takes over his late father’s unusual job: performing prayers on behalf of the dead. His routine visits to the cemetery lead him to the graves of five brothers, known as the Sukhteh siblings—men scattered across Mashhad, Tehran, Abadan, and war-torn Beirut, each claimed by a different shadow of history. As Mohsen begins to trace the fragments of their lives, he is pulled into a world where personal tragedy, political upheaval, forbidden love, and forgotten wars collide. Through his eyes, their stories unfold like a tapestry of the Iran–Iraq War era, the violent streets of the 1980s, and the chaos beyond the country’s borders. Ghosts—both real and metaphorical—emerge, blurring the line between past and present, truth and memory. What begins as a simple act of duty becomes a journey into the heart of a fractured generation. Mohsen must confront not only the brothers’ lost paths but the forces that shaped an entire society—forces that refuse to stay buried. “Bloody” is a haunting, atmospheric drama about five lives extinguished too soon, and the young man determined to understand why.

Story added by sepanta_kazemi on November 13, 2025