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It is about the loss of status and identity experienced by Yasmin and Halid in Turkey, who had to flee the war in Syria and leave their homeland. Halid, who works as a teacher in Syria, works as a shoe shiner in Turkey, and Yasmin works as a babysitter. After living alone in Turkey for a while, Yasmin takes steps to have her husband Halid come from Syria. When Halid reaches Turkey, the life he expected is not waiting for him. Halid and Yasmin struggle to obtain a temporary protection ID in Turkey. While they try to live without their identities and professions in Syria, the traumas they experienced in the past come to the surface.
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A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.

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A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.