Acting
Simko, Bishkok and Taco are ten years old and the most mischievous children in the village. One day, they go to a mulberry tree down in the village. Taco starts to tell the story of a small lake a little further down the creek; he tells them that in his time that lake was the home of Djinns and Fairies who kidnapped Ihsan the Mad and held him captive there. Simko thoughtfully goes home and asks his grandmother about this story. His grandmother tells the rest of the story and Simko falls asleep... That night, he dreams of Ihsan the Mad and asks her to save him. When he wakes up in the morning, he goes straight to Bishkok and Taco's house and tells them what he saw in his dream... The three friends set out to rescue Ihsan the Mad.
The story of Adem, a poor and hunchbacked man who follows the legendary Pirebok, prompted to him in childhood, to start a family, and his paths cross with a woman who managed to survive with her daughter fleeing the war and took refuge in a neighboring country.
The film is set in a small, snow-covered mountain village in Kurdistan. We follow a young woman, Helin, who wants to discover her family history. She lives with her mother, Susika, who has not spoken since her husband was arrested and imprisoned by the Turkish authorities. She cannot write or read either. Helin wants nothing more than to find out the story of her father. It is a story of how political oppression of a people and culture impacts that community, how it silences people, and about human resilience. Keeping a culture alive is a form of resistance.
