The present book is a short story about Mehdi Bakeri, a brave and popular Iranian commander. The story is nar-rated by one of his neighborhood kids. He says, “Mr. Mehdi was a zealous young man in the neighborhood. He had a kind and serious face. He has established an intimate relationship with underage kids in the neighborhood. He often played with them and was kind to them. It was quite a while that he was no longer seen in the neighbor-hood. We heard the news that he had gone to the front. On that day, we were playing with the kids and all of a sudden, we saw a khaki Toyota car. Mr. Mehdi was inside. He was on leave. We ran stealthily with the other kids to ride the back of his car. But he noticed, stopped the car and took us all in for a wild ride around the town. Then he bought us ice cream and took us to a mosque in the town. We prayed together and talked a lot at the mosque. The next day, Mr. Mehdi went back to the front with the same car and never returned again.

(1971-Tehran) Narges Abyar is an Iranian author, film director and screenwriter. She graduated in Persian literature; she started writing books in 1997 so far she has written more than thirty story and fiction books for children, young adults and also adults. Abyar has made several short and feature-length documentaries as well.