Steppe

A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.

“Hür Adam” or “Free Man” in English is the real-life story of a very influential Kurdish scholar in Turkey that had lived between 1877-1960, 'Said Nursi'. A writer, philosopher, and philanthropist, he compiled many books on Islam covering various themes of faith, brotherhood, and philanthropy and exploring the reasons behind societal weakness, poverty, ignorance, and divisions.

In a remote village of Anatolia, the dead body of a female doctor creates a deep curiosity among the villagers. The shepherd who didn’t confess his treatment because of his social fear, becomes the main suspect of the incident. Meanwhile for the lawyer the village he visited coincidentally to find peace gradually turns into darkness of expectations which are manipulating the truth or maybe it’s the truth hiding somewhere closer no one dares to look.

Consequent to her rape, Demet (Gassal) gives birth to a baby girl. After all she has been through, she is alienated from everything on the material world. She builds herself a world between her child and her duties against God.