A student disrupts the class while the (biology) teacher is drawing an elaborate diagram of an ear on the chalkboard. The teacher asks a group of seven students to name the culprit. In the first scenario the students resist naming the culprit at the price of being suspended for a week. In the second scenario one of the students names the culprit who would then get punished so the other six would return to class. Kiarostami presents these two hypotheses to the then key figures of the education system in Iran as well as influential thinkers and activists with conflicting political views and affinities to different political parties and asks them to comment on both scenarios.