The series First Rain's Always a Surprise carries images from Haerizadeh's mum's personal photo album as a student in England, during the Islamic Revolution and the war. She was part of the first generation of kids that went abroad to study. Hengameh lived in England and regularly headed to the Swiss mountains for her winter vacation. The retrieved images of innocence are injected with actual events happening at the time. The images are perverted and so is life, all of it becoming a big chaos. In this entire series Haerizadeh uses images of his mum at the time of the Islamic Revolution and during the war in Tehran. They show the mystery of the truth held in photographs, as traces of something or a piece of reality. The artist confronts the personal photographs with events that were taking place during the same time period.

While Haerizadeh's mother Hengameh was a student in England, the book Lady Chatterley's Lover was censored and later forbidden for women to read it. The book narrates the story of an upper class lady falling in love with a lower class man who is a bird hunter. It was not until 1960 that the book was available to public. Haerizadeh mixes images of the censored book over a backround of his mother posing in front of her boarding school outside of London during the same time period.