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It tells the story of Ferdi and Cemile's impossible love. Ferdi's father takes the blame for Zeki Ağa's crime and is executed. Zeki Ağa raises Ferdi alongside his own children. Years later, Ferdi returns home as a highly educated agricultural engineer. Zeki Ağa loves Ferdi dearly and wants him to marry Cemile. Davut, who is jealous of Ferdi, rubs the kindness shown to him in his face. Ferdi, who wants to repay the kindness shown to him, takes the blame for Davut's murder and goes to prison. Years later, when he is released from prison and reunited with Cemile, Davut's anger has not subsided.
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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.

A middle class young man rebels against his father’s brutish authority and seeks a rough romance with a woman of ethnic minority. Yuce’s moral tale draws from the example of today’s Turkish youth and the timeless shadow of fathers over sons.