Ungur myndlistarkennari vonast til að verða fluttur til Istanbúl eftir að hafa lokið skyldustörfum í afskekktum þorpsskóla í Anatólíu. Eftir ásakanir um óviðeigandi samskipti við nemanda dvína þær vonir verulega.

'Indulging again in the super-sized runtime of 'Winter Sleep' and 'The Wild Pear Tree,' the Turkish auteur's ninth feature outdoes both those films in playfulness of form and richness of feeling.' - Variety

Var í keppnisflokki á Cannes, þar sem Merve Dizdar var valin besta leikkona hátíðarinnar!

English

A young art teacher hopes to be transfered to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of innapropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.