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- Consumer Advice: Contains brief sexual images, and strong language and sex
- Run time: 2 hours 1 mins
- Language: Turkish
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 22nd February 2008
- Starring: Nurgul Yesilcay, Baki Davrak, Tuncel Kurtiz
- Directed by: Fatih Akin
- Distributor: Artificial Eye
Plot Synopsis
The fragile lives of six people connect on emotional voyages toward forgiveness and reconciliation in Germany and Turkey. Nejat disapproves of his widower father Ali''s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But changes his mind when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her daughter''s education. Yeter''s sudden death distances father and son. Nejat travels to Istanbul to find Yeter''s daughter Ayten. However, political activist Ayten is already in Germany, having to flee the Turkish police. There, she meets Lotte who invites rebellious Ayten to stay in her home, a gesture not pleasing to her conservative mother. When Ayten is eventually arrested, she is deported and imprisoned in Turkey. Lotte travels to Turkey, where she gets caught up in the seemingly hopeless situation of freeing Ayten.