The Seamstress of Ourfa

Khatoun creates beautiful dresses that leave her customers' husbands dizzy with desire, while her sister in law Ferida cooks sumptuous feasts to sustain a growing and lovingly described group of relatives and the waifs and strays they adopt. The date is creeping nearer to 1915 and the genocide perpetrated on the Armenian people in Turkey. When the events of those years start to unfold, the traditions and lives of the Armenian people are slowly yet inexorably torn apart.