Araf (2012)
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Neslihan Atagül, Barış Hacıhan, Özcan Deniz, Nihal Yalcin, Yasemin Çonka
A young woman in a monotonous job falls for a truck driver, whose arrival stirs her longing to travel and complicates her future.
The story
Twenty-year-old Zehra lives in Karabük, where she works as a kitchen assistant at a highway rest stop and finds her days dreary. The monotony of work and the constraints of her conservative family home leave her yearning for something different. Her colleague Olgun hopes to marry her and dreams of winning money on the television game show “Deal or No Deal.” Then Zehra meets Mahur, a truck driver, and falls in love. His arrival awakens her longing to travel, setting her hopes and relationships on a new course.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Twenty-year-old Zehra, from Karabük in Turkey’s Black Sea province, leads a dreary life. She works as a kitchen assistant at a highway rest stop and suffers from the monotony of the job and her conservative family home. Her colleague Olgun wants to marry Zehra and hopes to win money on the game show “Deal or No Deal.” One day, Zehra meets Mahur, a truck driver, and falls in love with him. Mahur also awakens her longing to travel. But when she becomes pregnant by him, Zehra decides to stay in Karabük, and Mahur leaves her. From then on, she has to make do with Olgun, whom she marries at the end of the film, and the child born out of wedlock.
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