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Over two weeks in London, a struggling writer quits his job to finish his book while his relationship with a translator grows more distant.
- Year
- 2017
- Format
- Feature screenplay
- Genre
- Drama and black comedy
- Status
- Complete screenplay
Deniz used to be a painter. Now he has an unfinished book, a bookshop job he hates and a relationship with Emma, a translator, that grows colder by the day. After they bury Emma’s cat together one night, he quits his job to finish writing.
Over the following fortnight, he drinks with a friend who is considering returning to Turkey, runs into a former classmate whose paintings are selling and has his palm read in a bar. Emma is unhappy in London. Both are trying to work out what comes next, but neither knows how to say it.
A drama and black comedy about loneliness, the difficulty of talking and the questions people avoid asking themselves.
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