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Silifke, Turkey

Two desperate parents send their tearaway teens Ritchie and Hannah to rural Turkey to experience conservative parenting at the hands of teachers Ali and Canan Vural.

Two desperate parents send their tearaway teens to rural southern Turkey to experience conservative parenting at the hands of schoolteachers Ali and Canan Vural.

Bone idle Ritchie Reddey is doing absolutely nothing with his life. He lives with his father, but they might just as well be strangers. Ritchie is joined by 17-year-old vodka vixen Hannah Button who, despite her 12 GCSEs, has dropped out of school and holds all-night drinking parties while her mum is at work. Things are so bad that just before Hannah is due to leave her mother throws her out.

In Turkey the first fight kicks off when Ali asks Ritchie to hand over his oversized earring. Ritchie responds by breaking the rules and going outside for a smoke. When the teens are asked to work in a lemon grove, Hannah gets stuck in but Ritchie only pretends to work. When the farmer refuses to pay him, Ritchie storms off in anger.

When Ritchie and Hannah experience real family life with Ali's extended family in the mountains, the British teens start to realise what is missing from their lives.

Over the week, Hannah admits to Turkish mum Canan that she punched her own mum and gave her a black eye. Canan helps her realise she mistreated her mother and gets Hannah to write home to apologise. Will Hannah's letter be enough to mend the bridges when she arrives back in England?

57 minutes

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Role Contributor
Producer Sarah MacFarlane
Producer Sarah MacFarlane
Director Sarah MacFarlane
Director Sarah MacFarlane
Executive Producer Eve Kay
Executive Producer Eve Kay

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