Before the Night

Before the Night portrays ordinary life under the enduring state of emergency from the perspective of its three characters Gulbîn a painter living with her parents is trying to make her own way in life while obsessively painting a portrait of her mum with inspiration from Whistlers painting Mother The mother models for her daughter while trying to insulate her house from the noise of the bombs to no avail The father whose health is deteriorating tries to reimagine his warstricken city with old photographs he took