In a city full of unemployment, people, their troubles and lives, are they as mundane, haphazard and tiny as myriadly dispersed particles? What about Zeynep, clinged onto life with her little daughter and mother, how much space does she cover up in this immense Universe? Zerre (The Particle) portrays the formidable struggle of a family of three to survive when its only breadwinner, Zeynep, is unfairly dismissed. Zeynep shares a cramped home with her mother and daughter in a city where it’s impossible to find even the most menial work, so when the threatening landlord, Kudret, demands her rent arrears, she accepts a job outside the city and sets off on her way... With its focus on a single character, its emphasis on handheld camerawork and its realistic narrative, reinforced by the use of real workers and real locations, The Particle explores the question of ‘existence’ through the story of an ordinary person. |
