Synopsis
With this film we travel to Neishabour of forty years ago. The movie captures the life of a tireless poet, who remained in the dark world of illiteracy for the first thirty years of his life. Deprived of class or teacher, Yaghma works as a mud-brick maker until by accident life presents him with a mentor who teaches him to read and write. His thirst for knowledge and his enthusiasm for learning help him read the Koran in a short term. His near photographic memory allows him to memorize a treasure load of Persian poetry. Immediately he begins writing poetry himself and with gift of a good voice, he sings these poems in the streets and markets.
Yaghma says, “I was deprived of a gift in my youth that I have now found in the middle of my life.” Thus he generously shares his knowledge with everyone who desires to learn. He has left the well of ignorance and now flies like a bird in the sky of poetry and literature. Yaghma sighs as he remember his lost youth and asks, “What would have I been now if there existed a school in my village?”
