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At the end of 19th century, the Ottoman Empire was striving to manage the turbulence of change that came along with the process of industrialization and transition to the modern world order. The British were excited with the prospect of obtaining a new wealthy colony they would call Iraq. Against the desires of a defeated and weakened Turkey that was yet to become a country, the border was drawn and the Mosul Vilayet was attached to Iraq.
All of a sudden, those who have been living under a vast empire face a new phenomenon “borders”. Families are divided across borders which does not reflect the sociological borders of the region. The artifical borders resulted in the separation of families, loss of relatives. Over the course of time, the trauma stemming from the mourning of this loss passed down through the generations.
This film tells the story of one of those families torn asunder by the new world order. It is a story of a family separated by the Lausanne Treaty and the Sykes Picot Agreement, and its reunification 100 years later following the Grandson’s discovery of his kin at a conference on human and minority rights in the Mosul Vilayet.
