Kasap Havası

Leyla, a beautiful and feisty middle-aged woman, lives with her mother, whose nagging has become everyday background music. The two women fight shamelessly and cruelly, and in protest against her mother Leyla makes choices that even she herself finds a bit startling. Ahmet is a taxi driver, years younger than Leyla and confused after his father's death. He still has to report his every step to his mother and obey his uncle who is the head of the family.

While Leyla is a completely hopeless case in the eyes of the society, Ahmet could still be saved by a marriage to a decent and kind neighbour girl. There is no room for a naturally evolving relationship and all the members of the two families eagerly begin organising the match. However, contrary to anyone's expectations, Ahmet and Leyla fall in love. Is this true budding love between a man and a woman or is this protest, driven by an inner need to stand up to social rules? The main characters do not ask themselves that question and events unravel unforeseeably. The choices of the two drive them apart from their family and friends who, in a manner so alien for us, righteously intrude in other people's private lives. (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)