'Loneliness' explores the impact of changing veiling laws on Iranian women through three closely-observed portraits. The first takes place in 1936 after Reza Shah banned women's veils. A woman, whose story is based on the experience of the director's grandmother, miscarries her child after being beaten by the militia for continuing to wear a veil. The second vignette is the story of a young girl, post-1979 revolution, who loses her mandatory headscarf in a stream; and the third looks imaginatively toward the future of Iranian women.