No lights. No water. Persecuted by the Goverment and living on the building ruins of what for generations was their home. That’s how the remaining kurdish families of Ali Paşa, a small neighborhood on Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey, try to survive. Everything else was destroyed, every one else was kicked out. And they know they’re next. “Umut means Hope” is a telling in first person of the struggle and resistance of kurdish families against the destruction of their history.
