25-year-old Sibel lives with her father and sister in a secluded village in the mountains of Turkey's Black Sea region       Sibel is a mute, but she communicates by using the ancestral whistled language of the area       Rejected by her fellow villagers, she relentlessly hunts down a wolf that is said to be prowling in the neighbouring forest, sparking off fears and fantasies among the village women       There she crosses path with a fugitive       Injured, threatening and vulnerable, he is the first one to take a fresh look at her