The Thousand and One Nights

A man is stuck on the border between two countries. He has jeopardised his whole livelihood by spending the last money he had on a herd of cows that he awaits coming from the war torn neighbouring country. Amidst the sounds of explosions and distressing announcements made by the border authorities, the man’s hopeful waiting for the cows, turns into the fear of losing everything.

Seyithan(12) is a boy who lives in a rough village of Sırnak. His teacher, just before the semester holiday, gives every each students one of the tales of the thousand and one nights along their course books. Seyithan, as a child who doesn’t like studying, is not really interested with the book his teacher gave. But one night, on account of a blackout he gets bored and starts to look the pictures of the book. ln a little while, he is amazed by the fairy world of the book. After finishing this amazing tale he starts to a difficult adventure in which he first reaches his classmates’ tales and then all the other fairy tales.