"Exam on the Edge of Time" follows the resilient journey of students in Turkey's earthquake-ravaged Hatay city and Saman | dG1fcHY0R3BVYzJROWM
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00:00This is the result of the civilization we have come to. We have been destroyed.
00:15We don't have a school, we don't have a teacher.
00:21No high school in the nation has been working so far.
00:24120 days have passed since the earthquake.
00:27After the earthquake, the exam was extra painful for us.
00:31While people had not yet buried their corpses, the exam was given.
00:40We lost our mother, we lost our father.
00:43We don't have a family anymore.
00:45We used to work in our room, but now we don't have a room.
00:48How can we work in a place with 6-7 people in a single tent?
00:51This is what I think.
00:54Psychologically, the number of our students who could not collect themselves is a lot more.
01:00I carried about 55 corpses.
01:03Some of them had no faces, one of them had no head.
01:09We need to celebrate the survival of these children.
01:12It's not about the success of the exam.
01:16These children are left behind from a city where 70,000-80,000 people died.
01:23We need to celebrate the survival of these children.