Three women, three generations, grandmothers, grandchildren, and grandchildren, have experienced all kinds of wars. Each of them has also studied at the same school. Schools are closed and everyone has left Tehran fearing bombardment. Those who have stayed have covered their windows with black or dark cardboards (to conceal the light from the fighter pilots). The siren goes off with a loud noise warning the residents about imminent bombard-ment. The narrator answers the phone. Her grandmother is stuck in the crowded street. She has to drive to give her a ride home (go and fetch her). She finds her in the schoolyard. Searching her memories the grandma recalls and says that when the school was being built, it was during World War II and she was only a child. She had been watching the school being built. The school owner, fearing the war had fled to Tehran. Her brother goes to buy bread. A Russian soldier gives him bread while showing him his son's picture. The frightened brother runs the entire distance (all the way back) to the house. The father forbids him from going out again. After the war, the grandmother, in spite of her father’s protest goes to school to study. Although her father is disapproving her edu-cation the grandmother continues her education

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