The residents of a small town set between a stormy sea and an ominous forest are becoming insane. They are convinced that successive signs appearing in the town are indications of doomsday.

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s haunting political allegory delves deep into humanity’s obsession with Doomsday, messiahs, and salvation. With exquisite black-and-white cinematography and mesmerizing mise-en-scène, Sideway confirms Tayfun Pirselimoğlu as a director of mysterious vision.