16-year-old Hormoz is consoled by the prospect of hiring on at the strip mine as he is married off to 13-year-old Hendi. Alas, the young man finds the doors of opportunity shut tight. When Hendi becomes pregnant Hormoz enters into an ominous pact with a smuggler in order to ensure his family’s livelihood.

The story opens in Balochistan, in a small, scarcely ‘wired’ village bordering Iran and Afghanistan. Ahmad is an idealistic teacher in exile, educating the local community; his partner Haseeba, however, has spent time in jail in Tehran for the very same offence against the State. The disaccord between them is not only social but also personal. Ahmad's destiny collides with that of a family fleeing the Taliban; soon the intricate divisions of age and gender within that group will trigger other problems and entanglements – including a 'lovers on the run' intrigue that fleetingly recalls Murnau's classic Tabu (1931). Across all the arresting, shifting peripeteia of its plot, Abbas Amini's film deftly dramatises the complicated question of commitment: do we commit ourselves to a political cause, a set of religious beliefs, or a person? And how do we negotiate the commitments of others, even those closest to us, when they are based on a very different value system? With its sparse music score, densely naturalistic acting and unostentatious camera work, Endless Borders is almost a minimalistic suspense thriller (with Hitchcockian overtones), combined with a heated family melodrama – but it never loses sight of the serious and extremely timely issues that it raises. 源自：

在阿巴丹船厂工人开展激烈的罢工示威之时，工人埃米尔的尸体在一条运河中被发现，引发了众人的怀疑。埃米尔的弟弟易卜拉欣在照顾年迈的母亲的同时，也开始照顾自己的嫂子——年轻美丽的寡妇萨尔瓦。易卜拉欣一直对萨尔瓦充满爱意，但不曾流露这份感情。另一方面，工厂雇主想用钱私了，妄图以现金收买埃米尔一家，让他们不去起诉。但易卜拉欣的母亲与罢工的工人拒绝这件肮脏的交易。然而，易卜拉欣既无法做出决定，也不想被困在两个党派的斗争之中。正在这个时刻，萨尔瓦也有了自己的打算……