The Cut

Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police round up all the Armenian men in the city, including the young blacksmith, Nazaret Manoogian (Tahar Rahim), who is separated from his family. He becomes a forced laborer and only survives the mass murder by chance and an act of kindness. Years later, he hears that his two daughters are also still alive. He becomes fixated on the idea of finding them and sets off to track them down. His search takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts and Havana to the barren and desolate prairies of North Dakota.