Farshad Khodaee is about to get married to a Japanese girl. He looks at himself in the mirror and sinks into the past. His acquaintance with his wife goes back to the accident of his best friend, Morteza, with whom he had grown up together since childhood. Morteza is another illegal immigrant like Farshad and his legs were amputated in an accident and stayed in a coma for six months . . .

Hiroku, Farshad’s Japanese wife, becomes a Moslem and comes to Iran and gets pregnant.

They go to Japan to give birth to their child. Due to the misfortunes of life and Farshad’s addiction, their lives are immersed in a haze of ambiguity, and eventually, they separate while the child stays with the mother in Japan . . . The following years of Farshad’s life are spent in isolation and self-destruction. He has starred in movies and theater scene for many years and tries to return to normal life with the help of his friends and find his daughter. His daughter, Ayaneh, is now a 25-year-old woman and they find each other on Facebook website. . .

This book has many features, including:

1- Being both easy and in-depth (everyone may understand this book according to his/her level of literacy, social class, and social status);

2- Demonstrating the national attitude or character of Iranians in detail since 1971;

3- A comprehensive analysis of social psychology;

4- Demonstrating the destructive outcome of war and PTSD;

5- Introducing the country of Japan in the ninth decade of the twentieth century from the perspective of an immigrant;

6- Comparative study of the cultures of the two ancient eastern nations of Iran and Japan;

7- Addressing the social and historical events of contemporary Iran;

8- A philosophical look at the place of man in civilization;

9- Analysis of the revolution event in Iran;

10 - Introducing tourist attractions in Iran and Japan;

11- Philosophical critique of modernity and postmodernism.

The book The Polluted Water Fish was the best-selling book in 2020 in Iran.