Durmuş and his wife Nimet immigrate from an Anatolian town, Nigde to Istanbul to have a better life and they start to live with Bekir. Bekir is an old friend of Durmuş from motherland and works as an attendant in a hostelry which belongs to Mr. Halit…

A landmark in Turkish political cinema, this piercing portrait of ambition, dispossession, and silent complicity confronts a buried national trauma. With rare courage, director Tomris Giritlioğlu illuminates the human cost of a dark chapter in history—one shaped by power, prejudice, and erasure.