Selim Atakan

Nesibe lives with her parents on the outskirts of Istanbul; the family is poor, and her consistently unemployed father often takes out his frustration on the rest of the family. Nesbibe knows that there has to be something more to life, and she finds it—at the movies. As she recalls her childhood and adolescence, her own memories merge with scenes from the dozens of musicals, melodramas and romances she saw to fill her days and to escape the desperation of her home life. But as she moves into adulthood, the contradiction between Nesibe’s cinematic dream life and everyday reality starts to affect her in unexpected ways.

Relato que retoma una antigua tradición de su país: ofrece una de sus hijas al padre de su segunda mujer como dote para volver a casarse y así tener la descendencia masculina que su primera esposa no pudo darle.

A retired teacher and a very succesful female banker meets at a holiday resort incidentally. The woman is sick and tired of her workload/housework and his husband while the man has escaped from his monotonous lifestyle. He is up to settle in a village nearby where he thinks he will live his dream in solitude. While looking for a place to rent, they get close and fall in love with each other. But their lifestyles and characters are quite different.