Sudaveh, left, with one of her employees, lost her job after the Iranian revolution and started her own factory. As a businesswoman, she faced extra scrutiny from the newly formed morality police, one of the obstacles her assistant, Zarir, helped her negotiate.
"We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering." -- Carl Sagan