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Some fortunes are not meant to be sold. 🎏

In Majid Majidi’s The Song of Sparrows, a simple family story quietly unfolds. Karim, a kind but struggling father who loses his job at an ostrich farm, travels to Tehran to earn money for his family. His young son Hussein, meanwhile, dreams of raising goldfish in a muddy water tank, hoping to turn it into something beautiful and profitable.

When the boys finally buy the goldfish, disaster strikes. The bucket leaks, slips, and breaks. In moments, their bright, shimmering hopes scatter across the hot asphalt. The children try desperately to save the fish, but not everything can be rescued.

In the end, Hussein releases the surviving fish into a stream, choosing kindness over money. Karim watches in silence, slowly understanding how far he has drifted from the simple values he once lived by.

Sometimes small losses remind us what truly matters.