Jemal is a musician and saz player. He became seriously ill nineteen years ago, and the doctors are now telling him that he has only a few months left to live. Instead of waiting for his death, Barika, his wife, begins studying folk medicine and herbal healing.

VLADIMIR ANDONOV was born in Sofia. He graduated in Film and TV Direction from the New Bulgarian University. He has scripted, directed and edited eight short documentary and feature films, ‘Aşk’ being his sixth.

Festivals & Awards: International Portrait Film Festival, Sofia; RIFE International Rhodope Documentary Film Festival, Smolyan; Ilindenski Denovi IFF, Bitola, North Macedonia; ETNOFF, Skopje, North Macedonia; Special Mention Award, OKO International Ethnographic FF