The film In Keaton’s Lemon Garden follows Keaton Reyn, an American filmmaker sent to Iran to cover the Revolution of 1979. As the Revolution erupts into chaos, Keaton hastily flees the country with Leila Shirazi, the daughter of a Jewish political figure with ties to the monarchy. Keaton decides to take Leila to his family’s lemon garden in Italy, where the two develop a romance amidst their fears as they hide from Iran's revolutionaries.