A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
A heartbreaking story of orphaned siblings Ayse and Ahmet who had to live with their old, disabled grandfather after the death of their mother while their ignorant, good for nothing father leaves them to marry with a woman who does not want them.—baydere
It is summertime, and Ahmet and his younger sister Ayse stick together, the boy extra-protective in the face of their uncertain home life. When their mother died and their wastrel father Kazim remarried a harridan, they went to live with their grandfather Hasan. The old man is a loving guardian, but the combination of age, infirmity and poverty weighs heavily. Their aunt in Germany wants to bring them over, but paperwork takes longer than expected, and Hasan struggles to keep the household going. Neighbor Gulgeren suggests farming 8-year-old Ayse off as a servant to a rich family, but Hasan resists breaking up the siblings.—CROSSING EUROPE Film Festival Linz
Can a boy of nine be a big brother, a father, a mother and a luminary all at once? For young Aye, the answer is yes. In fact, as far as she's concerned, her big brother Ahmet is afraid of nothing at all. But the truth is, Ahmet is a child too: he too has his fears and it's impossible for him to know everything.
Their father Kazm has gone off to marry another woman and abandoned the two children to their fate with Hasan, their crippled elderly grandfather. But in spite of everything, brother and sister never seem to lose hope.
This simple, poignant tale of a village, and the relationship between a brother and sister in that village, portrays one of the grittier realities of Anatolia.[http://www.mommofilmi.com/english/index.html]
