Episode 3: Losing Touch
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The death of poet Mohammad Shabani, an Iranian dissident living in Turkey, catches his friends, family, and supporters by surprise. Fariba finds one of Mohammad Shabani’s confidantes and learns new details about his life in exile before he died.
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