In Roya, Farsi for dream or vision, Zeeba uses video footage from their first trip back to Iran after leaving the country in the 1990s. The film revisits a road trip from Isfahan to Sari, where dream, memory, and reality blend into a multi-layered narrative that reflects on the politics of image production. Zeeba weaves a semi-documentary, semi-fictional narrative that delves into themes of belonging and upheaval through desires and fragmented self-conceptions, while addressing the orientalist gaze of Western audiences