Silent House

In a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arrived to serve the poor fishermen. Her visiting grandchildren are a dissipated failed historian, his sensitive leftist sister, and a high school student who dreams of going to America. But it is Recep's nephew, a high-school dropout, lately fallen in with right-wing nationalists, who will draw the visiting family into the growing political cataclysm issuing from Turkey's tumultuous century-long struggle for modernity.