Mehmet, a young Turkish man newly migrated from the village Tire, takes a job searching for water leaks below the surface of the streets of Istanbul. Due to a strange set of events, he is mistaken for a Kurd, imprisoned, and brutally beaten. Upon his release a week later, he becomes an outcast marked as a Kurd, losing his apartment, his job, and eventually his girl friend, Arzu. When a Kurdish friend, Berzan is killed in a street protest triggered by a hunger strike, Mehmet takes a trek to return the body to Berzan's home village near the Iraqi border, and learns why so many Kurds are refugees.
| Directing | Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Director |
| Writing | Yeşim Ustaoğlu | Writer |
| Production | Ezel Akay | Executive Producer |
| Production | Behrooz Hashemian | Producer |
| Production | Pit Riethmüller | Co-Producer |
| Production | Phil van der Linden | Co-Producer |
| Sound | Vlatko Stefanovski | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Jacek Petrycki | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nicolas Gaster | Editor |
| Art | Natali Yeres | Production Design |
| Sound | Christian Götz | Sound |
| Sound | Mathieu Cox | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | Svetolik Zajc | Sound Designer |
