A grey road weaves its way through a barren landscape. A truck, carrying a dead body in a coffin, is parked on the roadside. Its driver is Mehmet; the corpse is that of his friend, Berzan. They met in Istanbul. It never mattered to Mehmet that Berzan was Kurdish. Berzan has been killed in a police crackdown and Mehmet has decided to bring his remains to Berzan's home village.

Yesim Ustaoglu's second feature is a story of contrasts. As Turkey is divided by political tension, so the 37-year-old director's film is split into two distinct parts. It starts out as a tough urban buddy movie and ends up an elegiac travelogue back to the roots of the country.

Ustaoglu refrains from commentary, letting her simple, immediate images speak for themselves. The characters' fear of the future and their desperate attempts to comprehend the situation are the subtext of the plot. A moving and dark journey to the sun.