Lia, a retired, unmarried history teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey.
Hoping to bring her home after a period of estrangement, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable and rather hapless Achi to find her. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search. Humanistic and compassionate, Akin's third feature is an intelligent, emotionally engaging film from the acclaimed Georgian-Swedish director Levan Akin whose international breakthrough came four years ago, with the love story ‘And Then We Danced’.
