When his mother dies, Yusuf, a poet, returns to his home village, which he hasn’t visited for years. His mother’s young nurse Ayla requests that Yusuf perform the sacrificial rite that his mother could not fulfill before she died.

Heralding the arrival of a major voice in Turkish cinema, Semih Kaplanoğlu’s ‘Yusuf’ trilogy charts a man’s journey to middle age in reverse chronological order. Told with a painterly eye for landscape and domestic spaces, Egg is a moving meditation on grief that channels Kiarostami and Tarkovsky.