A young woman cooks in her family kitchen. Through an off-screen exchange with her mother, generational tensions around womanhood, faith, and expectation quietly surface.
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NURŞEVİN SARIDAĞ
DAUGHTER
ŞEBNEM DEMİR
MOTHER
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