An intellectual finds himself “exiled’” as a schoolteacher in a small mountain village in south-east Turkey. An off-road village, without electricity, covered in snow seven months out of the year. In this village live a few human beings according to their own rules; a solitude made up of distances, rocks, snow and indifference, all on the margins of time at an indefinite period.
The few piles of stones that serve as dwellings are located on the edge of a chasm on a rocky ridge.
The hero of the film experiences the ‘inhuman’ reality of this place twice over: human misery and the impossibility of communication. To fight against both, you first have to get to know the mountain people, for whom time has stopped somewhere in the roots of history.
Here, in this village, nothing happens that isn’t tragic, but the drama is trivialised by habit and repetition. But there are the children who, when they’re not dying by the dozen, are the bearers of a marvellous will to survive!
