In her second narrative feature, Iranian writer-director-actress Niki Karimi presents a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision. At first it seems that thirty-four-year-old graphic designer Shahrzad goes about her daily life-working, driving, listening to phone messages-with placid ease, but her surface stillness masks a maelstrom of weighty decisions she desperately wishes to avoid making. Shahrzad is contemplating leaving her boyfriend, with whom she is raising a disabled son. At the same time, her father is very ill. Although boyfriend, son, and father loom large in Shahrzad's psyche, these characters appear infrequently. Instead, the film's focus is firmly on Shahrzad as she grows distracted at work, watches TV as a deadening means of avoidance, ignores persistent phone messages, and repeatedly drives her car to the same lookout point. Her supervisor is unhappy with her latest work, an obnoxious neighbor constantly parks his SUV in her space, and she must transfer her son to a new hospital. Despite her best efforts to maintain solitude and inertia, she eventually must contend with some tough choices. Karimi's style owes a debt to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, whom she assisted on The Wind Will Carry Us and ABC Africa. Like her previous feature One Night, A Few Days Later . . . tells a gripping story of personal choice amid a vividly depicted social and cultural milieu.