Filmmaker Kim Longinotto and anthropologist Ziba Mir–Hosseini's brilliant first collaboration was Divorce Iranian Style. Returning to Tehran to film in a center for young female runaways, they have again created an intensely moving, insightful, and troubling portrait of several rebellious young women and the conditions under which they live. Beatings, verbal abuse, abandonment, public humiliation, and domestic incarceration are among the grievances the young women make when they are asked to explain why they ran away from home. Brought to the center by the Police Unit for Combatting Social Corruption, the girls stay there until they are either reunited with their families or given a job and place to live. While the complaints the girls make about their homelife are disturbing enough, the advice they get from their counselors ("You must put up with hardship. You must go back to your family and live a normal life. There's hardship in everybody's life") and several of the girls' decision to return to dysfunctional, abusive homes make Runaway a profoundly disquieting experience.