Cry of the peacock

Recounts the story of an Iranian family's struggle for freedom and peace over 200 years, from the splendour of ancient Persia to the tragedy of modern Iran. Peacock the Jew is nine years old and living in the Esfahan ghetto when she marries Solomon the Man. She is the descendant of a three-thousand-year-old tribe of Jews -- the oldest community in diaspora, a people largely unknown to the outside world. He is a singer in the royal court, a wealthy man known for his good looks and his charm. A decade later, she will become the first woman in her ghetto ever to have left her husband.