Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.
Cinematography
Misty Black Sea coast as character, not backdrop.
Acting
Saylak's stillness—every blink feels earned.
Director
Özcan Alper
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alper's debut anchors Turkey's 'minimalist wave'—state-funded but fiercely independent, rarely exported beyond festival circuits.
The Georgian-Turkish language barrier becomes erotic strategy: bodies negotiate what words cannot.
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