“The Cow” is an adaptation of a novella form the collection “Mourning in Bayal” by the prominent Iranian writer, psychiatrist, scientist and communist Gholam Hossein Saedi who published his works under the name Gohar Morad
Alienation as the affliction of little man in an unhealthy society was his main theme. Hassan’s entire life is inseparable from his cow, who dies suddenly and the villagers wreck their brains trying to invent a way of hiding the sad news from Hassan.