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In northeastern Turkey, a farming couple keeps alive a seed that has been passed down in their family for 1,500 years. But they cannot be sure that their children will carry it on.

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A farming couple lives with their children in a village in northeastern Turkey. Every spring they sow 1,500-year-old wheat seeds that they inherited from their ancestors. When the time comes, they grind the grain in their mill and bake bread from the flour. Although harvesting this family seed is hard and the yield is small, they believe this heritage is a source of life. Passed down over thousands of years, the seed is a genetic treasure in terms of its gluten, vitamins, minerals, proteins and fatty acids.

The family wants to entrust this most precious thing they own to their children as a legacy, and to secure the seed's survival by sowing it again every year. But the expectations of the farming couple and the dreams of their children are at odds. The eldest son wants to marry and move to the city. Their daughter has already left the village to go to secondary school. She wants to become an aerospace engineer. The third child is still too young to think about his future, but from his child's perspective he begins to feel the conflict in the family.

They cannot place the fate of the seed in their children's hands, and they do not want to tie their children's fate to the future of the seed. So the farming couple looks for other ways to keep the seed alive.

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