The story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl living during the Islamic Revolution. Vincent Paronnaud is a French comics artist, famous for his macabre humor. His other film credits include the short animation Raging Blues (2004). Marjane Satrapi is a graphic novelist, illustrator and children's book author, best known for her autobiographic novel Persepolis, on which the film (her first) is based.