Teacher Samet’s self-centred narrative is tested by Nuray, Sevim, an institutional investigation, provincial routine, snow, photography, and the responsibility of looking.
Sinan returns to his hometown after university and attempts to publish his book while confronting his father’s debts, local power networks, faith, writing, and the difficulty of remaining in place.
Aydın’s cultural authority, private property, charitable language, and good intentions collide with Nihal, Imam Hamdi, debt, class difference, and the silent measure of winter.
A prosecutor, doctor, police commissioner, gendarmes, and suspects search the Anatolian steppe throughout the night for a body, while procedure gradually becomes an inquiry into truth, memory, and witnessing.
