In Sex and Philosophy Mohsen Makhmalbaf returns to Tajikistan (where he filmed The Silence in 1998 following his growing frustration with Iran's censorship codes), this time to address relationships between the sexes. On his 40th birthday, a man engineers a revolt against himself. He invites his four lovers to a dance class where he teaches. They are shocked to discover that they have been sharing his affections. He tries to explain his actions, reviews each of his affairs, discusses with them passion, possession, time, and how love blossoms from even the smallest seed. He gives each woman a parting gift - a stopwatch - and asks them to measure each minute of true love that they experience from then on. And he realises that the more sexually-oriented the contemporary world becomes, the farther it moves away from love….