Alone in New York, Yakup clings to the hope of reunion. As the wait drags on, his grip on time and reality begins to slip, pulling him deeper into a fragile and unsettling inner world.

Nobody was calling. So we wrote a story.

That’s how Nadir Sarıbacak tells it: he phoned Ayhan Hulagu and said they should write something, because nobody was calling. When the film was finished we didn’t wait for a distributor either. We started with one night in Washington, D.C., audiences began voting for their own cities, and we went where the votes were. That came to 32 nights across the US and Canada since April, and more than half of them sold out.

Also critic Dr. Paul Salfen, filmmaker Saleem Reshamwala, actor Bill Timoney, and scholars Dr. Philip Clayton and Dr. Jeannette Okur.