In Nowhere Land

Şükran is a woman of about forty who works at the ticket window of Haydarpaşa station. Her only son Veysel works in a wire drawing workshop. Her husband had suffered a great deal for being caught up in political events. Because of that she tries to keep her son away from anything of the kind. But one day Veysel disappears. Şükran applies everywhere and none of it leads anywhere. The authorities tell her that nobody by the name of Veysel was taken into custody. They show her unidentified bodies instead. One of them cannot be recognised; her son’s fiancée Şule insists that it is Veysel. Şükran does not accept it and goes on looking. Zuhal Olcay and Meral Okay take the leads in Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s Turkish film of 2002.