Yüksel Yavuz

The film depicts the daily life of a Kurdish German family in Hamburg. Cem, one of sons, earns his living in a slaughterhouse and has a secret love affair with a German prostitute.

Hamburg. Baran, a Kurdish orphan, and Chernor, a refugee from Africa, are living in the shadows of a city that barely registers their existence. Bound by statelessness and survival, they carve out a fragile friendship on the margins, stealing glances of freedom in a country that denies them belonging.

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A day in the life of a "stranger" in the metropolis of Istanbul.

The Kurdish director Yüksel Yavuz tells in an autobiographical documentary about the life of his father, who worked as a so-called guest worker at a Hamburg shipyard from 1968 to 1984. Never really at home, he only knew the way to work, the fish market and the coffee house. Yavuz succeeds in creating a touching contemporary document in which he traces the personal life story of his father and connects it with a piece of the social history of the FRG.

A trip back to the own roots, into the troubled country of Kurdistan.

Istanbul is a diverse urban community with nearly 16 million residents. Numerous minority groups have settled here. The documentary traces their history through music, showing how they live and what connection they have to the city’s past and present.