
by Buket Uzuner
It is late 1990's in Istanbul. Duna, a young Istanbulian highschool teacher, wakes up one morning to the sound of fighter jets, later to find a group of soldiers at his door. A civil war has erupted and the country is being mobilized. thus begins Duna's journey to an uncertain future. Meanwhile, during Duna's absence from his neighbourhood Kuzguncuk, a small village by the shores of the Bosphorus that has long been a melting pot for Jewis, American, Greek and Turkish communities, a misterious accident occurs. A love triangel that Duna had been involved in since childhood is shattered.
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