Çağlar Yalçınkaya

Erdem, a painter who is disappointed in his career, returns to his hometown for vacation and seeks solace among his family. Amidst the warmth of family, he begins to come to terms with a car accident from his past. In search of true fulfillment, he decides to embark on a new path unknown to his family.

A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.