The piece recreates a video shot in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2011. The video, which records the city as seen from over the shoulders of a tourist couple aboard a river cruise on the Bosphorus, was confiscated early in 2012 when the Islamic guidance police arrested the artist in Tehran for wearing “inappropriate clothing.” From inside the police car, she called Istanbul and ordered replacement footage. This recreated fragment of a love story is an indictment against moral violence and censorship.
