Meydane Sorkh opens with a mother's plan to get her daughter proper medical care outside Iran, a plan that starts unraveling the moment her husband's secrecy comes into view.
What is Meydane Sorkh about?
Sheida wants nothing more than to take her daughter abroad for treatment, but the arrangements her husband has quietly kept from her turn out to hide far more than a hospital appointment. What looks at first like a private family matter widens into something closer to a crime thriller, pulling Sheida into a world of concealment and consequence she has no easy way to walk back from. The series builds its run around that unraveling, tracking how one lie kept for what a family member thought were good reasons ends up reshaping every relationship around it.
About the cast
Hamid Farokhnejad and Mahtab Keramati lead a cast that also includes Bahram Afshari, singer-turned-actor Reza Yazdani, Saeid Dakh, Kazem Siyahi, Mehdi HosseiniNia, and Masoud Keramati, a lineup spanning veteran film actors alongside Yazdani, one of Iran's better-known rock musicians taking on a dramatic role.
Context & significance
Directed by Ebrahim Ebrahimiyan, Meydane Sorkh sits in a familiar line of Iranian television drama that treats a domestic crisis as the entry point into a wider criminal plot, a structure that lets the show move between an intimate family register and genre thriller mechanics inside the same run of fifty-minute episodes. It is a straightforwardly Iranian production, shot and cast entirely within the country's own industry rather than adapted from an outside format, and its cast list reads like a cross-section of working Iranian television actors from the last two decades.
Watching Meydane Sorkh on Ktime
Meydane Sorkh streams on K-Time with a free account, and the site's interface runs in Farsi throughout, so nothing about the viewing experience needs translating for the audience it was made for.