Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father

Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father

Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayward dadHigh in the Caucasus mountains, the photojournalist Rena Effendi is searching for the butterfly that bears the name of the father she hardly knew. It is rocky, bleak, beautiful – and impossible. The grass is fried yellow by the increasingly f…