The film is a well dug into the past. Made with bits of an unfinished film, "Red Shoes,” which was to be the director's very first auto-produced short film, but that remained “unborn” due to lack of money. What links the 16 mm footage that is the body of the present film, the poem that represents the heart of it, and the finished opus Letter to an Unborn Child represents close to thirty years of the Sepideh Farsi's life.