In a land where their language is smothered by the authorities, a band of young people are valiantly fighting to keep their mother tongue – and their culture – alive.
In a land where their language is smothered by the authorities, a band of young people are valiantly fighting to keep their mother tongue – and their culture – alive. This is Turkish Kurdistan, where the teaching of Kurdish is strictly forbidden. In the face of this unjust dictum, a group of friends secretly print and distribute textbooks – but it’s a dangerous business punctuated by violent, often murderous
struggles.
When one of them, Aseke (Dimen Zandi), is killed, her friends vow to honour her last requests: one of which is to travel into the remote mountains to reclaim the black horse she owned as a child, and bring it back so they might meet one last time before she is laid to rest.
