Tayfun, Belgium’s first Turkish undertaker with a diploma, is a self-made man who throws himself into his work with disarming jokes, quick wit and restless energy. His days often end at the airport cargo doors, watching coffins leave for Turkey — a ritual so familiar it borders on automatic.
In Kayseri, Kemal runs a small ambulance service, driving the deceased of the European diaspora across Anatolia. When Tayfun visits his parents’ graves, their paths briefly cross, revealing the hushed divide between tradition and the realities of life abroad.
Marked by the hurried farewell to his own parents, Tayfun begins urging his community to question an old reflex: must every burial return “home”?
Two Square Metres follows a man whose positive drive challenges a long-standing taboo — asking why a community that lives in Europe cannot claim even two square metres there for its dead.