Nihan Aker

A woman in her thirties decides to leave her house in order to escape the feeling of a suffocation that makes her life impossible. The harder she tries to erase her existence from the house, the stronger the house clings to her. Objects, possessions, and ghosts of other people seem to be holding on to her. Worries and disturbances bring her closer to them. That day, the woman realises she cannot undo anything that exists—even herself

In 1910, women working in the silk industry in Bursa, protest against the working conditions. They go on strike.

Ceylin is a fourteen-year-old seasonal agricultural worker living in a tent city. Ceylin, whose only dream is to go to school, knows that this is impossible. Her mother Meryem is bedridden. Her brother Adem has had a troubled life after his military service. Her father Cabbar, an agricultural worker, lives in the hope that one day he will get out of here. A documentary filmmaker named Bilge comes to the tent city. He meets Mehmet Emmi, who is in charge of the workers. As Bilge holds up a mirror to the tent city, one problem after another becomes visible. Everything is revealed with an event that affects Ceylin and the whole tent city.

Zeynep arrives from New York to a small town on the coast of Turkey with her American husband. She returns to a family that is broken- parents who are divorced and a younger sister who has become estranged. The troubled family embarks on a week-long sailing trip, meant to be a last chance for Zeynep’s father Yusuf, a dissident journalist being prosecuted by the government, to reconnect with his daughters before going to prison.