Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, Bal arrives at Yusuf's childhood when six year old Yusuf has just started primary school and is learning how to read and write. His father Yakup works as a honey-gatherer, a risky trade which involves climbing up ropes into the tops of trees where the hives are. To Yusuf, who accompanies his father to work, the forest becomes a place of mystery and adventure, and he watches his father in admiration as he works sometimes higher than the eye can see.Yusuf and his father have a very strong bond and although he is tongue-tied... to the point of stuttering paralysis in social situations, he can read and speak quite clearly when he's addressing his father.Ridiculed by his classmates for his stammer, Yusuf's anxieties escalate when his father must travel to a faraway forest to hang his hives in a treacherous mountainous area. Days pass and Yusuf and his mother become anxious when Yakup doesn't return. Distraught, Yusuf slips into silence but finally summons all his courage and alone, runs deep into the forest to search for his father. A journey into the unknown. [show more]
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Award-winning Turkish drama detailing the simple and subdued life of a family living in rural Anatolia. Yusuf (Bora Altas) is a painfully shy and reserved little boy who can only express himself to his beloved father Yakup (Erdal Besikcioglu). Yakup earns a modest living by collecting honey from the woods surrounding the family's remote home, while his wife Zehra (Tulin Ozen) runs the family home and Yusuf spends his days attending the local school. But tensions build when the honey crop fails and Zehra becomes increasingly worried that Yusuf is struggling to learn to read. Then, one evening, Yakup does not return from the forest...
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