May 31, 2013, in a circle of light, like a storyteller, Ali is at the airport and is looking for a taxi, after increasingly cumbersome checks – January 11, 2011, Egypt. The revolt thunders Tahrir Square. Khaled asks his wife, Bahar, not to go out. She needs a pharmacy. The BBC informs of the death of Mohamed Bouazizi, a young street vendor who set himself on fire a week earlier, on January 4, in Tunisia. The story goes back and forth between the countries in a revolution which seem to have the only way out “either Allah or the military. “The instructions circulate not to talk too much to others, to be wary of everything and everyone – January 30, 2011, Khaled, a pilot by profession, suggests leaving the country, leaving, anywhere, even at the hotel. Panic sets in. "At home, it's now hotels, planes..."

Past – Distant Home 2012. Baris arrives in Istanbul and returns to the family home where he finds his sister, Bahar, and his brother-in-law Khaled who have come to stay there for some time. In the United States, Baris had roommate problems, he approached poverty, "one can be homeless in New York" he says. Back home in this busy family home, everyone tells stories and looks at the other, close and different.

Passed – 2 houses 2011. Baris and Bahar trace the thread of their childhood, of their history. Baris takes stock of his belongings and expresses his dissatisfaction at not finding everything, distance and suspicion set in through life stories: Istanbul, United States, Cairo. "It's hard to go home without a job," said one. “There is no home anymore, a chimera, a ghost house,” says the other. In any case, the weight of the family, like a prison... These stories intertwined between individual memory and collective memory, plunge into the heart of reality, showing that social chaos engenders chaos and personal distress.