[4] Set in the time of the Second World War, Madare Sefr Darajeh follows the life of an Iranian student named Habib Parsa (Shahab Hosseini) who travels to Paris to study.

There Habib meets a French Jewish woman named Sara Astrok, a student at the same university.

They run into many problems, including persecution by the Nazis and by Sarah's Zionist uncle, but are united in the end.

[2] The government financed film has been widely cited as an effort by the government to demonstrate its positions in regards to the difference between Jews and Zionists, encompassing sympathy for the Jewish people (including an orthodox view of the Holocaust) while remaining hostile to Zionism.

"[2] The TV series won the praise and support of Iran's Jewish Association, an independent body that safeguards the community's culture and heritage.