Seyithan Özdemir

After Shipowner goes bankrupt, a bulk carrier is forced to anchor outside a god forgotten port. 5 sailors and the Captain has to stay on the ship. Out of food and water, not being able to get on shore things are about to get tough for all of them.

Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic - content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two problems. First, she doubts that he is real and second, because she is a scholar of story and mythology, she knows all the cautionary...