Serenade for Nadia. A Forgotten Tragedy of World War II

How do the events of a distant past affect the present? Why is an apparently ordinary professor being followed by intelligence agencies? And how much can the human heart endure?

Istanbul, 2001. Maya Duran, a single mother, desperately tries to balance her job at the university with raising her teenage son. She is assigned to accompany the enigmatic Maximilian Wagner, an elderly Harvard professor. And although at first it seems that nothing will disrupt the gray everyday life, very soon Maya's life is literally turned upside down — the past, buried under the rubble of World War II, carefully concealed by intelligence agencies, forgotten by the modern generation, comes to light. Forbidden love, the silenced tragedy of the 'Struma,' the unbearable backside of the 'Magnificent Century' — how to preserve humanity when you become a witness to hell?..

Inspired by real events from 1939–1945, 'Serenade for Nadia' is simultaneously a poignant love story and a gripping testimony of the power of human connection in times of social crisis.