The 15-Year Layover (2003)

Once upon a time, before facts were eroded by dreams, before the man destroyed and re-created himself, he had been a boy named Merhan Karimi Nasseri, happily living with five siblings in the oil-rich south of Iran. While he grieved, his mother notified him that she was not his real mother, that he was, in fact, the bastard son of an affair between his father and a Scottish woman, perhaps from Glasgow, who had worked as a nurse for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Merhan would leave Iran to study abroad in England, where he would receive a monthly stipend.

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