Iranian Director Majidi Majidi (Children of Heaven) returns to his talent for exploring stories centred on children's experiences with The Color of Paradise. The film tells the heart wrenching story of Mohammed (Mohsen Ramezani), a blind 8 year old boy (who is blind in real life) and his relationship with his widowed father, Hashem (Hossein Mahnumb). Hashem, bitter with the hand life has dealt him, schemes to rid himself of his blind son and remarry a young woman from a strict religious family. Thrown into an apprenticeship with a blind carpenter, Mohammad begins to succeed in his new life only to have his father's selfishness and anger create disaster. Mohammad's father, though gifted with sight, causes grave suffering because of his narrow vision, while his blind son Mohammad views nothing but sees what is important.

Majidi, exploring the relationship between a father and his son in Northern Iran, opens an intriguing window into a world that is usually closed to North Americans and in the process offers his most engrossing film to date.