Tomris Giritlioglu

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.

This drama is the story of how a small child's life is transformed by the woman his father loves, a cabaret singer, Anjelique. It opens in 1982, when the child is now on eighty-year old retired diplomat, living on his own with only a cat for company. (imdb)