“So why don’t you find yourself a husband then?“ asks Sonbol’s mother. The daughter responds with silence. Sonbol Fatemi is 35 years old. She is single. She has her own dentistry practice, and on the side she likes to race cars in rally competitions – especially against men. Sonbol lives in the holy city of Mashad in the Islamic Republic of Iran. To lead the kind of life she wants to live, she has to fight every day: against her mother, who would like to see her married; against the local sporting authorities, who want to ban women from competing in the rally races; and, not least of all, against her own doubt as to whether or not God is on her side. SONBOL is the portrait of a woman who just wants to be who she is, and has to pay a high price to do so. The film provides a unique look into a society full of contradictions – the setting of one woman’s rally race through life.
