A Tale of Three Sisters

The three sisters Reyhan (20), Nurhan (16) and Havva (13) live with their father in a remote village in central Anatolia. All three were sent to the city as maids, but have since returned to live at home. Nurhan was the last of them to return: she had beaten the son of the local doctor because he wet his bed every night. Reyhan was pregnant when she returned and was hastily married by her father to the shepherd Veysel. The dream of a better future does not seem to be coming true for the three young women, but the ties that bind them are strong. While they wait for the snow-covered roads to become passable again, father and daughters pass the time with stories. In haunting images, Emin Alper, who himself grew up in the Anatolian mountains, tells a fairy tale. He addresses a society in which neither women nor men have a chance to break the predetermined cycle, and yet leaves room for hope.