Kutlug Ataman’s highly charged thriller takes us into the shadowy world of Berlin’s gay Turkish émigrés, who live lives of constant double jeopardy due to the extreme homophobia within their own ethnic culture and the xenophobia of German society at large. This compelling film is at once a tale of family tragedy and a rare look at Berlin’s notable Turkish immigrant transvestite community. Ataman began his filmmaking career in Turkey but left after being detained and tortured for shooting Super-8mm footage of political events leading up to the 1980 coup.