Selma and Sinan are frustrated with each other after years of marriage. Their son, Umut, is trying to get to know and prove himself. All three are dissatisfied with their lives. Umut is a water polo player, a quiet and gentle high-school senior, trying to live his life in a complicated world.

Leyla Yılmaz’s second feature is a delicately balanced study of toxic masculinity, homophobia, and the fragility of the nuclear family. Not Knowing conjures the ineffable melancholy of teenage longing and tells the intimate stories of those who are deprived of the right to discover themselves.