The police procedural thriller shifts into a new gear with Ceylan's existential investigation into a local murder that sends police, suspect and prosecutor into the Turkish countryside at night in search of a body. What seems comical at first, with the killer unable to identify the exact location of his victim, soon becomes a more troubling investigation into what drives each of us to commit acts that may exist far beyond normal behaviour. Winner of the 2001 Grand Jury Prix at Cannes.