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Orhan Pamuk is one of the world's leading authors, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006 - the only Turk to have won a Nobel Prize. His works have sold 11 million books in 60 languages, including a memoir - "Istanbul", as well as many novels. He's probably Istanbul's most famous citizen. Because of his outspoken criticism of the government, particular over the Armenian genocide, he has been put on trial and has been the subject of attempted assassinations.

This is a film about Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence. The Museum is unique because it's both a novel and an actual museum in Istanbul. Pamuk describes himself as a failed artist who has become a writer. The Museum of Innocence allows the artist to reappear in creating a unique work - both a novel and a museum. To Pamuk, they are parallel narratives, two ways of telling a story. Pamuk opened his Museum of Innocence this year. It's housed in a traditional Ottoman house in Istanbul's Cihangir district. Visitors can enter for free if they have the book, which is stamped on entry with a butterfly motif.