A young Kurdish refugee accompanies her mother on a visit to the hospital, but is terrified that the diagnosis will bring her already fragile world crashing down.
Young Fatma, a Kurdish refugee, accompanies her mother Cahide on a visit to the hospital. Unable to locate an interpreter and so unable to communicate with Cahide about the nature of her very serious illness, the doctor explains to Fatma the extreme urgency of admitting her mother for immediate treatment. Trapped and distressed in a space that exists between cultures, amid several languages, and at the stepping-off point from childhood to adulthood, Fatma is terrified to face the circumstances of Cahide’s diagnosis and can only retreat into silence in an attempt to prevent her already fragile world from crashing down.
