Lingering Faith

Lingering Faith is a haunting exploration of identity, belonging, and the consequences of cultural displacement. Roje, a young woman raised in the diaspora, struggles to reconcile her Kurdish heritage with the life she’s built in the West. When she discovers her grandmother Beritan’s hidden past, Roje is drawn into a legacy steeped in secrecy, resistance, and unresolved grief.
In 1979 Bayazit, Beritan is a nurse in a land where her culture is outlawed. When she rescues a mysterious man from the snowstorm, her world begins to change forever. Shadows from her father’s past resurface, leading her into a dangerous web of secrets that test her loyalty, her courage, and everything she thought she knew.
As Roje digs deeper into her family’s buried history, she confronts not only the ghosts of her ancestors but the cost of forgetting-and the strength it takes to remember.
Set between contemporary Cologne and 1970s Bayazit, Lingering Faith is an evocative tribute to the unbreakable bonds of family and friendship, the enduring fight for cultural survival, and the quiet power of faith-even when the world demands silence.