This film thoroughly explores the adage "everything has a price.” It also explores what happens when you renege on a deal with the creator. Mihram finds goods for people, for a fee. To his wife's dismay, most of the proceeds get spent on gambling and alcohol.

Mihram promises the creator he'll give up those vices if he can succeed at one last big job. Then he can avoid being sucked into the local gang and start a legitimate business-selling mobile phones.

The Market is a sad, funny tale of a sad man just trying to get by in the poverty and corruption of Kazakhstan and Turkey. I really appreciate this view into what I hope are the lives of normal people of another country from my own. This is an excellent film.