Veteran director Bahram Beizai is best known to PFA audiences for Bashu, the Little Stranger. Travelers offers a more allegorical and experimental style from Beizai, who is in the vanguard of Iranian theater as well as film. Preparations for a big middle-class wedding celebration are cut short when the bride's sister and her family, en route to the wedding, are killed in a car crash. The ceremony becomes a funeral wake, black is switched for white, until the family matriarch sets the marriage in motion again. Even the dead sister comes to bestow her blessing on this decision to continue with life and love. "Finding the lost collective identity is one of my preoccupations," the director has said. "Even when I am writing about a single character...I am thinking in collective terms."