Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

A man is very excited of the prospect of a meeting with his lover at night. He doesn't want to leave his room before their rendezvous, but caves in when his friend insists. His fear becomes true and the night doesn't go as he plans. He falls in love with a girl who wears dresses of times past "in this chaotic night where each coincidence becomes an obstruction." The girl talks about her sick father and the father talks about the girl as his wife. (iksv.org)

A writer becomes obsessed by the mystery a beautiful young girl in a red dress in this Turkish drama set in the old world Istanbul suburb of Kucuksu toward the end of WWII. It all begins when the woman visits the writer during a summer storm. She flirts with him and the following day he takes her out, thus beginning an odd romance. The woman suffers from terrible nightmares about the suicide of her aunt in her family's burning home. The whole episode may be or not be real.