After a few years spent in prison for offending a mullah, Yolan, a tailor of Turkish extraction, escapes from Iran to Turkey in order to find his ancestors' village. He is accompanied by Ozal, a young boy he had given a home to. This film relates the wandering of these two characters through the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. Their quest quickly turns disappointing: their village seems to have vanished and they give themselves up to chance. They wander from village to village, lost, without knowing exactly what they are looking for. On their way, they meet all sort of characters, sharing with them a few moments before going further. After a long journey, they come across a seer and leave it to her to enlighten them on their destiny. A road in the dark leads them to the seaside. There, on a beach, some Armenians are dancing to the sound of bagpipes. A boat is waiting. Attracted by the music, Yolan starts dancing, frantically...

Screenplay Chapour Haghighat
Photography (colour) Shahriar Assadi
Editing Sophie Brunet
Sound Mohammad Mokhtari, Mikael Barre
Cast Engin Giinay, Kuzey Òzdogan, Ulku Ùlker, Suleyman Òzbek
Production Hubert Bals Fund
Year of production 2006
Running time 85’
Format 35mm

Chapour Haghighat

Chapour Haghighat was born in 1947 in Iran. He has published various short stories both in Persian and French. Since 1967 he wrote and directed various theatre plays, and one among them, Maskharé-yé târikhi, was awarded at Art Festival in Persepolis in 1968. He made his directorial debut in 2003 with Brésil, a la rencontre des sans-terre. The nightly song of the travellers, his second feature film, was made possible by the financial support of the Hubert Bals Fund, International Film Festival of Rotterdam.