The Heiress

Hülya is a young GermanTurkish writer Several years after the death of her father she decides to write a novel about him In order to get to know him better she travels to Damal the place where her father was born and grew up She meets the people from his youth and reconstructs his life there at school at home and in the expansive landscape around the village While she observes she does not always get an equally positive picture of her father and the dramatic events that shaped his life and hers Confusing memories fall into place At the same time present past reality and fantasy start mingling increasingly naturally and it becomes more and more clear that memory is a farfrominfallible instrument Nature idyllically one time and mercilessly next forms the atmospheric decor for this reflection on the value of family bonds love and honour