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House of Sand and Fog takes us through the explosive collision of three fragile people’s lives. Colonel Bahrani, a once wealthy soldier working for the shah in Iran, has been reduced to a struggling immigrant, determined to restore his family to their former status. Kathy Nicolo, a recovering alcoholic, refuses to let her hard earned stability, represented by her home, slip so easily away from her. Lester Burdon, an already married man who becomes infatuated with Kathy, and is determined to help return her house to her at all costs. Their inability to communicate causes an enormous eruption of anger and violence over this tiny home, which represents each of their dreams. With neither listening to the other, they are doomed from the mo