Arabesque Underground

Arabesque Underground tells the story of the youth in the former slums, the new suburbs of Istanbul. Rapping, dancing, rolling around and hanging cool, but soon swearing, fighting and protesting in pain to prove themselves to the world, the boys and girls write their stories on the wired walls of this new world. The boys of the hood have finally fixed the studio of their dreams. They are preparing for the talent competition and they are working on an Arabesque rap dedicated to the brother who is to be released from jail. The brother comes out, and yet he is stuck with the love story that he kept alive in his imagination. It then is revealed that he, who has been thought to have unjustly served time, did actually smuggle drugs for that very same love. The kids of the hood, who wish to escape the tragedies of the underground, try to hang on to their dreams through dance and music. But the ruthless prospering city of Istanbul will reduce their fantasies into ashes.