Surviving Fortress

Morteza sells all his property in the city and buys an old castle in the edge of desert connected to hectares of land which has been abandoned for years and has not been cultivated. There are also thousands of hectares of semi-arid pasture to graze a small herd and a ruined Qanat (Qanat: In Iranian traditional irrigation system, water is directed from the source in the mountains or from the depths of the ground to the plains by digging underground canals using only gravitational force)

Gradually, Morteza, with the help of his wife and his sons, rehabilitated the ruined aqueduct and prepared the ground for cultivation.

Now, it’s been thirty years that he has spent his entire life on his own farm.

He thinks of nothing but the farm and the little water of the aqueduct for irrigation.