How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish is a first-person ghost-ride into the suppressed world of women in Iranian pre-revolutionary popular cinema. It's a bold and unique journey through the eyes of someone who has worked in that cinema as both a director and an actor. This unique story has never been told before by the people who became the subject of Iranian cameras' intense gaze: the women. Hence, How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish is both a celebration of a troubled and much exploited "freedom" that Iranian women were offered after the Second World War and a detailed analysis of their representation and participation in that euphoric period of change. This is a tale of liberation, exploitation, emancipation and eventual suppression which will be told with the help of nearly 100 clips from films which are all banned in their country of production. Like the world in which they had appeared, the women of Iranian popular cinema saw themselves banned and out of work after the 1979 revolution. This film reclaims them as agents of change and progress and not, as it's been the dominant narrative so far, mere "victims". Instead of a linear historiography, the film focuses on the female bodies in movement, which together, documents a violently suppressed history that continues to influence today's Iran. The film not only demystifies the pre-revolutionary Iran and the role women played in it, but also seeks the roots of the violent rejection of women in the post-revolutionary country in images which were captured decades prior to ayatollahs taking power. It's a film which would go behind the veil, revealing what's hidden underneath in a journey covering nearly 90 years of moving images in modern-day Iran. Employing an essayistic approach, the film will be daring and revisionist in its re-evaluation of the role women had in shaping modern Iran and the many contradictions of playing such a role. How much of it was personal choice and how much of it a false image, this film aims to answer. How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish will be conceived as a poetic, collage-like, personal and visually rich reconstruction of a lost and buried time.