Nagihan Çakar

Mankind has made many efforts to understand what has been happening in nature, and for those phenomena that it wasn’t able to grasp, it created symbols in order to materialize them. Today, any drawing on the body is named a tattoo. This documentary is a pursuit of the secret meaning behind the tattoos of Şanlıurfa, known as “deq, daki vesm, döğün”.

The ongoing wars in the Middle East have caused countless number of children to grow up as orphans. Left with feelings of fear and anger, the memories of childhood never part with them.