Return of The King

Sadettin's father comes to the Netherlands as a teenager to work here for several years and then return to Turkey. But that turned out differently: it took him fifty years. In the 1970s he was welcomed as a guest worker with open arms. His children grow up here. To Sadettin
he says that "like all other children, he is just a Dutchman and shouldn't be too much of a Turk." Holland is his new home. But now that sense of home has changed.


After half a century of living and working in the Netherlands, leaves ...

Sadettin's father comes to the Netherlands as a teenager to work here for several years and then return to Turkey. But that turned out differently: it took him fifty years. In the 1970s he was welcomed as a guest worker with open arms. His children grow up here. To Sadettin
he says that "like all other children, he is just a Dutchman and shouldn't be too much of a Turk." Holland is his new home. But now that sense of home has changed.


After half a century of living and working in Holland, Sadettin's father left for Turkey on the first day of his retirement to live out the rest of his life as king. Why did he go back? What is it like to have been a guest in the Netherlands for 50 years? Are the dreams he had when he came here the same ones he has left with now?


Master storyteller Sadettin Kırmızıyüz takes you on an epic road trip from the Netherlands across Europe to Turkey with unexpected travel companions. Along the same route he traveled as a child in the back seat with his father, summer vacation after summer vacation. But this time, not his father, but Sadettin himself is behind the wheel.

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