Director: Tunç Okan; Writer: Adalet Agaoglu, Tunç Okan; Producer: Tunç Okan, Farid Tourab; Cinematographer: Torsten Breuer, Colin Mounier, Orhan Oguz; Editor: André Gaultier; Cast: Ilyas Salman, Valérie Lemoine, Micky Sébastian, Alexander Gittinger, Savas Yurttas, Saadet Gürses, Menderes Samancilar, Serra Yilmaz, Filiz Küçüktepe, Tuncay Akça, Mustafa Suphi Baltaci, Hikmet Karagöz, Ömer Basaran, Abdullah Özalp, Duygu Sönmez, Uyum Varol, Ayse Yilmaz, Serkan Uzun, Abdülhamit Danisir, Hüseyin Kanli, Muzaffer Sahin, Fuat Özel, Dietmar Waldenhofer, Ferdi Akarnur, Cevat Demirbas, Ihsan Baysal, Asli Seçkin, Ali Yayli
Summary: The film is based on 'Fikrimin Ince Gulu', a novel by Adalet Agaoglu, which depicts a first generation gurbetci/guest-worker returning home. It covers his land journey in short bursts from Germany to the Turkey's west border - and extensively from thereon to his village close to Ankara - capital of Turkey. He begins his journey purchasing a second hand yellow Mercedes - possibly his first car - using his meager savings working as a laborer. Offering deep insight into the mind of a manual laborer Bayram (Ilyas Salman) making his first trip back home, resorting to flashbacks in highlighting Bayram's motivation and experiences from his childhood right up to the events leading to his first departure from Turkey to Germany.
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