In the course of a day in Istanbul, five individuals cross paths and change each others' lives in unexpected ways.
Nesrin has problems with government because of an organization she has involved with. She is searched by military. She escaped to her grandfather's house. They started to connect after all the years, they weren't together.
In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision celebration. The family wants to be able to serve lamb meat to the guests at the celebration. Mert’s older sister scares him that if they cannot afford a lamb the father will slaughter him instead.
A Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
Dilber lives with her family in a very poor eastern village, her only dream is to marry her childhood lover, Ali. But when she finds out that it won't happen because of a reason that she can't get away with, she gets crazy and lock herself up in her family's barn. Then she makes everybody knows that she'll marry the first guy who proposes and won't leave the barn till that happens. One day, a limping man comes to the village. He's alone and has heard that there's a girl in that village who's ready to marry him.
It’s just another weird and ordinary day for Nesrin and her mother. As the evening comes, they face the same issues they face everyday again but the next day their ordinary flow of lies is about to be broken.
A high school student, raised in a modern family, is taken to a gynecologist for a virginity test by her parents. The psychologically and physically traumatizing examination makes her realize she does not have control over her own body. She will do anything she can to take the control back.
Pilot Captain Salih Ekrem is a young air officer and one of the first Ottoman pilots.
The sudden reappearance of the young Vera in a coastal village makes Jordi decide to undertake the search for his father, who has been presumed dead for over twenty years.
A young Kurdish man is torn between his mother's nostalgic search of a song in her dreams and an uncertain future with his pregnant girlfriend.
An unforgettable love that overcomes all obstacles, even time, distance and falling apart.
Cemil, a wannabe actor auditions for the villain role in a film. He can't get the role but the role gets him.
Ayça and Hama Ali are together in spirit, but divided by geography. With the outbreak of the Iraq War leaving him stranded, she embarks on an odyssey from Turkey to be reunited with him.