Searching for Satyrus

The rare butterfly Satyrus effendi is distant and elusive to Rena, much like her late father. The winged Satyrus can only be seen for a few weeks a year in the mountains between Azerbaijan and Armenia. The desire to learn what kind of life Rustam Effendi led and why he wasn’t more present during Rena’s childhood motivates her to search into her family’s past. A turning point in Rena’s story is the year 1990, when war came to her native Baku just as her father was dying. Family history thus became inseparably linked to the region’s tragic history.