Journey to the Sun is a portrait of Istanbul and its immigrants, bureaucrats, outcasts, and strugglers. Mehmet, newly arrived from western Turkey, befriends Berzan, a politically committed Kurd who is the frequent target of racist police abuse. Arrested due to his own supposed Kurdish looks, Mehmet finds himself caught, like his friend, in a web of discrimination. Forced to leave Istanbul, he decides to make a spiritual voyage eastward. A striking street-level vision drawn from the seething cityscapes of Istanbul, Journey to the Sun remains both a quiet celebration of interethnic friendship and a powerful indictment of a system that divides, wastes, and destroys.