A student’s understanding of American culture before arriving in the United States is often distorted by exposure to American movies and television.

The End of Childhood is about the unexpected realities of the American culture, their challenge to a foreign student’s identity and problems with which we must cope.

The movie deals with an Iranian student’s personal crisis in his encounter with American culture. His responses to the problems he faces are simple avoidance and pretense of action. The end of the movie brings him to an end of innocence
with his dilemma yet to be solved.