Umut who was born mute but not deaf, is a young man living with his mother Leyla in a poor neighbourhood of İstanbul. Umut, recently feeling that there’s something strange going on with Leyla, starts to follow her secretly and finds out that she meets with a man.

In Barış Hancıoğulları’s assured debut, Oedipal tensions are mirrored by a dreamy narrative in which our sense of time is constantly challenged. Fueled by Ahmet Melih Yılmaz’s scintillating performance, Leyla Once Again is a captivating psychosexual thriller suffused with the mysteries of belonging.