Ayça Damgacı
A long queue at the cafeteria of a rest stop. A middle-aged man, Emre, refuses to let a young mother - rushing to buy a bottle of milk for her little girl - go in front of him. This simple stand-off opens a Pandora's box when Emre's father gets involved...
Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who come to the town to sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe and Yavuz. None of their desires will be how they want them to be.
Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I love you”. They come together to remind viewers that Istanbul’s history does not belong only to the people of Turkey.
Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.
Ayça rewinds the route that her father Ismet had made 50 years ago from Zürich to Istanbul. Family business meets great history, with its hightlights and its shadows. Father and daughter go through joie de vivre and pain, with the feeling of being rooted and uprooted on both side of the Bosporus.
