Executions in post-Revolutionary Iran are currently done primarily by hanging rather than the previous method by firing squads. Each hanging needs an executioner whose job is to pull  the stool under the victim. Told in four separate stories, each one reveals the horrendous effects this job has on the executioners. The film displays various emotions, different conflicts that seize the people who are forced by the government to do this job. It is also a probe into the soul of Iran, now number two in executing victims after China. To see the kind of pain and torment endured by the executioners, who are mostly simple middle-class workers, is heartbreaking.