The film starts at some fourteen years after Fereshteh (Niki Karimi) and Royā (Merilā Zāre'í) became friends, while studying architecture at a university in Tehran.

The events in the life of Fereshteh over the course of the preceding fourteen years are revealed through a series of flashbacks that represent Feresheh's and Royā's reminiscences.

Fereshteh is stalked by an obsessive young man, named Hassan (Mohammad-Rezā Foroutan), who stops at nothing for gaining her attention and, as he puts it, marrying her.

The stalker follows Fereshteh to Esfahan and during a motorcycle-car chase causes a fatal accident involving two children playing football on street.

Fereshteh tries to leave her husband multiple times but events conspire against her and she's unable to do so, until 13 years have passed and the stalker is once again at her doorstep.

Finally after yet another fight with her controlling husband (he finds out she's been secretly acquiring and reading books, including those about childcare) she runs out of her home, chased by Ahmad.

The above dialogue is of the scenes of the movie Two Women in which two friends are talking about creating a group in order to gain power to protect themselves as the weaker gender.

Made in 1999, the film reflects the patriarchal society of Iran after the Islamic Republic when men would shape and limit all aspects of a woman’s life such as her education, career, lifestyle, goals, and marriage.

Unlike previous films in the cinema of Iran, the leading character of Two Women (Do Zan) is a lady naming Fereshteh which means angel.

She thinks independently and works as a teacher not only to use her knowledge but also to help her family financially which is so uncommon of a woman at her time.

She is a professional film director, screenwriter, and producer who came to the limelight by challenging traditional and conventional norms about women and their presence in Iran's society.