White as Snow (Turkish: Kar Beyaz) is a 2010 Turkish drama film written and directed by Selim Güneş based on the short story Ayran by Sabahattin Ali, which tells the story of a 9-year-old boy who must care for his younger siblings by selling hot drinks to weary winter travelers.

Hasan is a twelve-year-old boy living with his two younger siblings in a mountain village in Turkey’s Eastern Black Sea region, struggling to survive.

The family has been in dire poverty since Hasan’s father’s imprisonment.

One cold winter day, Hasan goes to the teahouse by the road to sell ayran to travellers.

The man who runs the place, Recep, is waiting to hear from his beloved Fatma whose family forced the two lovers apart.