Murat Mahmutyazıcıoğlu

A short while after his dominant wife abandons the wimpy and meek Hayati, who is a literary teacher in a patriarchal town, the police find an unrecognized female corpse by the lake. Hayati wants to state that the body belongs to his wife and to take the blame for the murder that someone else committed.

On his first night back in his hometown of Kütahya after living in Paris for many years, Oktay is once again confronted with the reasons that have kept him away from home for so long. As he is about to leave the city again, he happens to walk into the home of a distant relative and meets Ayşe. Ayşe is a rural woman who is unhappy in her marriage and cannot fit into the small world confined by four walls. Oktay and Ayşe find happiness in each other after many years. The only way to sustain their happiness is for Ayşe to go to Paris with Oktay. Ayşe, perhaps for the first time, is faced with the opportunity to be happy and must choose between everything she knows as life. Ayşe’s decision will also determine whether Oktay, who has never felt at home anywhere, will end his “guest” status in his own life.

Catalyzed by a chance encounter, Can Eskinazi’s short then sinks into the pleasures of meandering conversation. Immersed in a nocturnal palette of inky blacks and luminous whites, this road movie in miniature follows its drunken characters walking, talking, and looking toward wide-open skies.

A student house, two women, a man, an intimate friendship, two scores, a dinner party, love, crowded streets, endless hopes, small cries crushed under the great noise of the city.