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We’ll live life for ourselves. And we will help others. We are cubs now, maybe. But we will grow to be lionesses. Strong women who make things happen.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e1950, Tehran. Seven-year-old Ellie lives in comfort, wanting for nothing, until the death of her father brings a drastic change in fortune. At school, she meets Homa. Together, the girls play games, wander through the Grand Bazaar and share their ambitions of becoming 'lion women' and the first generation of women fully working in Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpportunity allows Ellie and her mother to return to their bourgeois life, and Ellie’s memories of Homa fade. 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