A news channel employee Hasret, has been seeing the same nightmare for quite some time. Through recurring nightmares, a question creeps into her mind: Is it possible that her parents were not killed in a traffic accident twenty years ago but have died in some other, horrific way.

Ceylan Özgün Özçelik’s atmospheric debut paints a grim picture of contemporary Turkey with a dystopian depiction of a TV channel where fake news and manipulation are the new standard. With the chilling tension of a thriller, Inflame indivisibly ties a nation’s past traumas to the present.