cahit, who's twice her age, is at a very different point in his life.drugs a lot, doesn't know what to do with his anger and his aggression. and both try to end their life. that's how they meet in the beginning of the film, in a psychiatric ward, and she tries to convince him to enter a fake marriage... ..to escape her traditionalfamily. he reluctantly agrees. then they fall in love... ..very deeply, but also very destructively. fatih akin, with his background, from coming from a turkish family, is probably the only person who could have told this story. he doesn't make a statement like, "this is how turkish people live in germany." he shows one way... ..but with cahit�*s character, he shows a completely different way. i hadn't really seen anything from germany that was so rough. so emotional. and just. . .that hit me very hard. it changed the way the world saw german cinema. head—on showed to the world, or to international audiences, that german cinema can be something different. german cinema can be emotional, can be rough, can be wild. it was wild an