Osman Kavala has been in a Turkish prison since 2017, first accused of masterminding the 2013 Gezi Park protests, acquitted in 2020, then rearrested within hours on coup charges and sentenced in 2022 to aggravated life imprisonment. Director Linda Vierecke builds her portrait from Kavala's own letters and from the people closest to him. His wife, academic Ayşe Buğra, describes the toll of years of separation and legal limbo, while Asena Günal of Anadolu Kültür, the arts and culture foundation Kavala founded to promote dialogue between Turkey's ethnic and religious communities, explains how much the country's civil society has lost without him, particularly after the recent earthquake disaster. The film traces his work defending Kurdish and Armenian minority rights and his standing as a target of the Erdogan government, alongside the European Court of Human Rights ruling that called his detention politically motivated. Kavala's own words, written from Silivri prison, run through the film as a quiet counterpoint to the state case against him.