The film Father, Daughter, and the Immortal Song is essentially two stories intertwined. The father is Malek o'Shoara Bahar, the greatest neoclassical poet in Iran since the fourteenth century. A humanist, a leading intellectual in pursuit of social reform and freedom for the people of Iran. His determination to change the social order and see democracy flower in his country brought him several periods in jail and exile in Iran. His daughter Parvaneh Bahar was the seed from which she sprang, and grew. He provided the fertile garden and Parvaneh became a courageous woman whose determination to leave the world a better place, led her to embrace the cause of the oppressed in her adoptive country, the United States of America. The stories of Parvaneh and her father's struggle for reform mirror one another, both singing the song of freedom for all human beings.