Holy Spider

Tehran-based journalist Arezoo Rahimi arrives in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting local street prostitutes addicted to drugs, dubbed the "Spider Killer" by the media. The killer follows a pattern of picking up women on his motorcycle, taking them to an apartment and strangling them with their headscarves, before ultimately disposing of their corpses in desolate areas on the city's outskirts. Rahimi teams up with Sharifi, the editor of a local newspaper, to discover the killer's identity. As they delve deeper into the case, Rahimi encounters resistance from relatives and associates of the victims who fear being ostracized further for their connections to prostitutes, and from policemen who express indifference due to the social stigma of prostitution.