The reflections on the glass sliding doors under the incessant passage of the crowd, compose the visual flow of the video. The camera focuses on the hands whose gestures unroll a silent dialogue by signs with the audience. Colors, shapes and textures echo N.H.Mak’s narration, interwining with the poem’s mental imagery.

In the middle of the city at Istanbul, there is an ivy-encircled pergola on an apartment backyard. As spring arrives, the wisteria sinensis ivy blooms preposterously. With the outbreak of the pandemic and Covid lock downs, Faruk dedicates himself to film this ivy and its purple flowers. As he gets closer, he begins to fall in love. After a while, he finds himself in a documentary project, which indeed was his childhood dream. This documentary perhaps is an effort to immortalize his love and affection for the ivy and its flowers, just before his departure to live at another place. Booming wisteria flowers and their visitors flow over the time, just like water stream over the pond, all under the same pergola.

Erik and Henri have been best friends since childhood. A cross-section of Erik's life not only puts him to the test, but also their friendship. But what is stronger than a profound, amicable bond between two people who treat each other in a respectful, caring and understanding manner?

Scared and courageous, at home but not feeling safe at the same time... A woman, a journalist, having served prison time because of her book, wins her freedom back and comes back to life she left behind. A chaotic Istanbul combined with the traumas of dark days past, she spends a day full of fear and paranoia. Is it possible to get used to live in constant fear.

“There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.” – Lauren Oliver