The Persian Connection

As a child soldier, Behrouz miraculously survived the Iran-Iraq War to life on the streets of Los Angeles. After two decades under a ruthless Iranian mobster, Behrouz leaves the underworld to follow his American Dream. But after a chance encounter involving a high-stakes poker game, he is brought back into the life he left behind. With the help of his Russian girlfriend, Oksana, he must hunt down some missing drugs belonging to his ex-boss, as events from his past and present clash; spiralling out of control. The Persian Connection is an electric neon-noir fever dream set in the Persian opium underworld of Los Angeles.