Damla, six months pregnant, lives in New York and has recently married the American Kevin. Damla and Kevin travel to Damla’s summer hometown, where she is reintroduced to her family and her first love, Burak, whose presence questions the comfortable American life she has worked so hard to achieve.

The picturesque Aegean coast is filled with shades of regret and longing in this tense character drama. The tone of Across the Sea gets gradually darker as the remnants of an obsessive love rise to the surface of the sea. A meticulously staged, engrossing debut feature from Esra Saydam & Nisan Dağ.