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The Silence of Snow, The Journey to Kars | Our City Is a Peaceful Place, The Outlying Districts

• A man named Ka has returned to his native Turkey after a twelve-year absence where he managed to catch the last bus leaving for the northern town of Kars.

• Ka's fellow seat mate asks him why he is traveling to Kars and he says is a journalist going there to cover the stories about the municipal elections and the suicides of the young girls.

• Ka finds his way to the Snow Palace Hotel, passing two people that look familiar to him.

• Ka's first day in Kars was spent interviewing voters and the unemployed of Kars, and the families of the girls who had committed suicide.

• Serdar Bey showed Ka where the mayor had recently been murdered, then took him to the police station, which was housed in what was once the...

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