Shattered photos, excerpts from newspapers and pieces of words become voices that spread through the alleys of a Turkish city, until they reach the house of a writer, who’s writing a page. These fragmented voices tell the story of Asli Erdogan, Turkish writer who went on exile in Europe after being imprisoned for her political ideas. The voices narrate about her childhood in Istanbul and the feminist commitment; about the years as researcher in Switzerland and Brazil before returning to Istanbul, the heart of her lost country. Footage of travel and migration in search of work, images from physics laboratories, videos of protests against the authorities in Istanbul: these become substances of the inner world Asli Erdogan holds together within herself during the exile. The voices reveal who she was and who she wasn’t, they whisper something about the future. Meanwhile, the page is no longer empty and contains words.
Based on the novel Hayatin Sessizliginde by Asli Erdogan.
