An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.

Beulah Borr
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Salman Rushdie
as Self - Writer

Ruhollah Khomeini
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Abdullah al Ahdal
as Self - Imam (archive footage)

Isabelle Adjani
as Self - Actress (archive footage)

Ali Khamenei
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Hitoshi Igarashi
as Self - Translator (archive footage)

Bono
as Self - Musician (archive footage)

Kamal Kharazi
as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Donald Trump
as Self - Politician (archive footage)