On the Air Turkey plane. Running late. Possibility of missing the connecting flight. On the screen there’s a subtitled Turkish film. The film opens with an old man returning to a place he worked at 50 years ago. It then flashes back, introducing a maverick engineer, who has the crazy dream of building the first Turkish automobile. No one takes him seriously, he’s treated like a wild man from the hills, until someone in the government decides to take a punt and back him. He assembles a crack team, and they all head off to a remote site to live together and bring the dream to life. They’ve been given a bare 150 days. They also have to overcome the overwhelming scepticism of an entire nation. They suffer. Their wives suffer. But men are men. They will find a way. It’s The Right Stuff or the Dirty Dozen, set against the backdrop of the history of the Turkish car industry.
Outside, somewhere between Serbia and Turkey itself, mountains gleam with snow. The sun begins to set as the plane chases evolving night.
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