When his mother, living in Turkey with his father, dies mysteriously, Ali, a professor somewhat detached from his family, suspects foul play. Allowing his suspicions to spiral out of control, he plots his retribution with a newly befriended drifter to exact a brutal punishment, in Alireza Khatami’s Sundance prize-winning film.

Ali is a haunted man, troubled by years of abuse in Turkey, a man seeking a clean slate after going to college in America, and never really finding it. Hoping to have a child with his wife, he tries to make a go of it in Turkey, while trying to keep an eye on his mother whose health is failing. But when she dies, Ali is devastated, and thinks he knows the culprit. Seeking revenge, Ali continues the legacy of inherited violence he was so desperate to leave behind.