A frozen village, dead elders, and three officials who can't outrun their own guilt.
In the snow-covered geography of Anatolia, in the Burmadere village of Ardahan, a 70-year-old woman is found dead in her home. While Fuad is examining this suspicious death, another death news comes. This news causes doctor Cemre and the prosecutor to come to Burmadere village. The trio, whose paths intersect with these events, are stuck around the incessant suspicious deaths and their struggle turns to face their own consciences and reckoning.
Cinematography
Anatolian snowscapes that swallow characters whole.
Direction
Hanay's patient framing turns landscape into accuser.
Director
Erdal Rahmi Hanay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Burmadera village doesn't exist on maps; Hanay invented it to suggest institutional blindness to Turkey's rural periphery.
Tuvana Türkay, playing prosecutor, was reportedly the only cast member who didn't remove layers between takes—the cold was the performance.
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