PERSEPOLIS

The coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. We meet nine-year-old Marjane when the fundamentalists first take power--forcing the veil on women and imprisoning thousands. The story then follows her as she cleverly outsmarts the "social guardians" and discovers punk, ABBA and Iron Maiden, while living with the terror of government persecution. Then Marjane's journey moves on to Austria where, as a teenager, her parents send her to school andshe has to combat being equated with the religious fundamentalism she fled her country to escape. Marjane eventually gains acceptance in Europe, but finds herself horribly homesick, and returns to Iran to be with her family, though it means putting on the veil and living in a tyrannical society. Based on the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi.