Derviş Zaim’s  film recounts the tale of a man tormented by a crime he once committed and now anxious to redeem himself. Prevailed upon by a friend, Ahmet is reluctantly involved in the theft of an invaluable antique Koran. However, this act pushes him into unwanted and unfamiliar territory. The action of the film, which advances along an axis of crime and punishment, organically incorporates one of Turkey’s traditional art forms, calligraphy, into the story. Strikingly, calligraphy marks both language and the content in the film’s structure as a single, fluid shot. Dot follows on the heels of Waiting for Heaven (Cenneti Beklerken), a film woven around the traditional art of miniature painting.