Away from Home

Herkes Kendi Evinde

After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.

Director

Semih Kaplanoğlu

Screenplay

Özden Cankaya

Screenplay

Semih Kaplanoğlu

Screenplay

Serpil Kirel

Status

Released

Release date

26/04/2001

Original language

Turkish