It is based on Ernest Hemingway's 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, but it moves the setting from Cuba to the south of Iran and the shores of the Persian Gulf. All the events of the film are nationalized.
Naser Taghvai's first film after the Islamic revolution in Iran.
It is considered one of the greatest Iranian films by critics.
It won a prize in Locarno Film Festival 1988.
Naser Taghvai's 4th feature film.