John Pitt, drop out from the University of Bedford, has arrived in Iran, as a naive English teacher. It is 1974 and Iran is changing, with the forces of religious conservatism and of liberal reform at collision point. Amidst all this, he falls madly, irresponsibly, uncontrollably in love with one of his students, Shirin. 'A Good Place to Die' is the extraordinary story of what happens to a country and to a couple swept up in its history.
