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Özkan, who is still too young to distinguish between work and play, works for free alongside his father, Mezeci İsmail Hakkı, who is struggling to make ends meet with his three-wheeled mobile cart. Pirinç Han, once a place where grain was sold, no longer lives up to its name. As a apprentice to the grocer, Özkan quietly observed and remembered the daily lives of the merchants at Pirinç Han in the 1970s... What else will Özkan witness? What kind of ending will he write?
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A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

Mezeci Çırağı Özkan
A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.