Maryam Samadi

A beekeeper is trying to move north at the end of the summer. He has a wife with Alzheimer’s disease who is always lost in different places. Their children are looking for a solution and want to send their mother to a nursing home before their father moves. The old man is unsure of what to do.

A young disabled boy’s lifelong wish may be realised when his friends encounter a swan by the pond, which tradition says can heal everything. Together, the group of friends decide to make the journey together for this once in a lifetime chance.

In the city of Kobane, after the ISIS attack of June 2015 (the Black Night), a tailor continues to sew, hoping that his customers will return. He talks to his wife and daughter, who were victims of the massacre—he keeps their bodies in a locked room. Finally he decides to destroy a wall and let the sun shine on their bodies, hoping that light will overcome the darkness.