KAMELEON

"Raise your hand if you're white!" shouts Sadettin's daughter. She raises her hand and he joins in. "Daddy! You're brown!" she says, laughing. She is six, has dark blonde hair and blue eyes and is baptised in the village church, but watches her favourite films in Turkish and wants to become a Muslim when she grows up. Who is this child? And who is Sadettin next to her?

In 'KAMELEON', Sadettin Kırmızıyüz shows with humour and a keen eye how we all change colour, often without realising it. At home he is the good Turkish son, on stage the culturally responsible migrant and in talk shows the nuanced Dutchman with a multicultural background. For years, he saw this as a talent: the ability to adapt and move effortlessly between worlds.

But now there is his daughter. Because of her white skin, the world suddenly seems to see him differently. In the playground, bakfiets parents make small talk and when a police car drives by, he no longer feels like someone who fits a description. Her whiteness seems to rub off on him: from 'that Turkish man' to 'just a father'. Until he raises his hand when his daughter asks who white is. And she corrects him.