The Haunted is an intimate video letter to the spirit of the extinct Turan tiger, which disappeared from Central Asia in the 20th century. Today, the tiger lives on in people's collective memory.

Saodat Ismailova is one of the representatives of a new generation of artists from Central Asia who came of age in the post- Soviet era and have established cosmopolitan artistic lives while remaining deeply engaged with their native region as a source of creative inspiration.