Shohreh is a female Iranian writer torn between staying in a country and culture she has always known and leaving for America to finally be afforded a life without censorship. Toiling during the day in one life and writing at night to dream in another, the film documents her struggles before and after the current female-led protests in Iran, her correspondence with PEN America to save other writers-at-risk, and her landing stateside amid growing authoritarianism and eventual wars between America and Iran. After fears grow for maintaining her visa status and war continues, she questions the cost of freedom and where home might finally be with friends, family, and notable artists and thinkers who share similar immigration stories of resistance to censorship and repression. Parts memoir, travelogue, and love story, “MY ROOM” is a real-life Handmaid’s Tale that lifts the veil on a woman who risks everything on her journey to freedom in modern day Iran and America.