About
Mania Akbaris From Tehran to London 2012 has a Russiandoll structure It begins with Akbari shooting her latest film entitled Women Do Not Have Breasts about a couple the young poet and writer Ava and her upperclass older husband Ashkan who live in a large beautiful yet isolated house in the hilly outskirts of the city Household workers Maryam and Rahim attend to their needs But despite their comfortable lives Ava is increasingly dissatisfied and estranged in her relationship with Ashkan What seems to have been an exciting relationship in the past is now little more than a series of mutual reproaches as Ashkan incessantly tries to change Ava into someone she isnt a dutiful wife