While in Amsterdam, Zeki, a gay singer from Turkey, receives the news that his colleague Mahmut has died in Hamburg. Zeki goes to the funeral and suddenly finds himself encumbered with Senay, the deceased’s daughter. He wants to bring the 11-year-old girl to Cicek, who is apparently an aunt of hers – but who’s actually Senay’s mother. The journey takes them from Hamburg to Paris to the south of Germany and then all the way to Istanbul. When Zeki finds the woman he’s looking for, she wants nothing to do with her daughter.
Ayse Polat was born in 1970 in Malatya (Turkey) and moved to Hamburg in 1978. Even as a teenager, she made videos and Super 8 films. Ayse Polat studied German Language and Literature, Philosophy and Cultural Studies and filmed her first successful shorts. TOUR ABROAD won the Promising Director award at the Ankara International Film Festival . In 2006, she directed the piece “Otobüs” at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) theatre.
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