When Marie found out that the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeiny's government permitted sex-change operations, she applied and was accepted into the program.

Before undergoing the operation, she informed her former wife of her intentions. Together, she and her wife  told their children that Asgar was going on a long trip with his truck. After the sex-change operation, Marie's former wife told their children that Asgar had died in a car accident. Marie was then introduced as a distant aunt.

For a while things went well, but when an Iranian gossip magazine revealed her true identity, Marie's children cut all their ties with her.

She now lives in a small apartment in downtown Tehran. She can't return to her old job, because women in Iran don't work as truck drivers.

Alone, abandoned by her children and friends, she spends her days with shady people in dark alleys. From a medical perspective, her operation has been very successful, but Marie knows that her decision has left her completely alone in this world.

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Marie, an Iranian transsexual has been published along other EVE photographers projects such as the Motherhood project in Brazil, Georgia, PDNonline and will be published in ITaly. Their first project was screened at the Lianzhou photo festival 2006, Visa pour l'Image 2006, Angkor Photo festival, Gijon International photo festival.