Niloufar, a 14-year-old girl from a middle-class urban family in Iran, is recovering from a serious illness—one that no longer confines her, yet has led her to withdraw from the outside world by choice. Within a household marked by emotional distance—a restless mother, an irritable father—she longs to rekindle warmth and connection. On a quiet afternoon, she prepares a symbolic birthday party for her cat and cooks pasta, small gestures of care in a space that has forgotten tenderness. But as her gestures fade into silence, loneliness draws her deeper into the dark.