The “tahtacılar” are descendants of settled Nomads living mainly in the Turkish Aegean and Mediterranean hinterlands who traditionally engaged in seasonal forestry activities. The 1979 film “Tahtaci Fatma”, directed by Suha Arin, one of the doyens of documentary filmmaking in Turkey, is one of the earliest films about the group. In an interview in conducted 1999, Arin indicated that he wished to make another documentary - one that involved updated information about their conditions, as he had not been in touch with them for several years. In 2004, Arin passed away without realizing this wish. Why was Arin curious again about a community whom he already worked with twenty years earlier? In ‘40 Years After Fatma’, director Sezer Ağgez’s goes back to find Fatma and observe the changes that have taken place in the community over the past four decades. With him are some of the documentarians who worked with Suha Arin back in 1979.