Armed with references to Existentialism and Woody Allen, the conversations of these Tehran University students could easily blend in at any Greenwich Village coffee shop. But unlike their democratic American counterparts, these young college intellectuals are powerless to change what they view as a stagnating society trapped in old-fashioned values. The students protest that their sole power is intellectual criticism, yet when it comes to political and effectual force, such as the University's riots and teargas bombings of 1999,they are powerless. Unable to find the liberal acceptance they yearn for, they juggle promises of successful futures in compliance with tradition and the principles and philosophies they earnestly believe in. A simple, truthful documentary that displays the significant effect of Western ideologies in the modern Middle East, That's Life portrays an outspoken generation of students promising to bring change in Iran's near future.