Ali is 18. His feet are firmly off the ground. The very idea of marriage seems like a game. But the bride's parents are ready and willing. Business ventures will be set up between the families; the arrangement will pay off all round. Ali, meanwhile, is more interested in playing with puppets and dressing up as a rooster for the travelling theatre. His fiancée has only so much patience... So what should his parents do? What was that? Hire a Borrowed Bride? Meaning exactly what? Well just that: borrow a bride, as the title of the film suggests......

Yusuf, who grew up in the suburbs of Istanbul, is a young man who tries to keep his family afloat and does not bow to injustice. While he dreams of a modest life with his childhood sweetheart Hazan, fate drags him into the middle of the underworld, power games and class conflict. When he reappears years later with a completely different identity, nothing is the same anymore; The wounds of the past and the hidden secrets will force him to follow both his heart and his revenge.

Kemal, un homme issu de l'une des familles les plus riches d'Istanbul, et de Füsun, sa cousine éloignée et pauvre, à partir des années 70. Kemal, prêt à affronter le monde pour laisser libre cours à ses sentiments, commence à collectionner les boucles d'oreille, les barrettes et même les mégots de cigarettes de sa bien-aimée… Qu'est-ce que l'amour ? Une obsession, une souffrance, un accident qui bouleverse le cours de la vie, ou bien un bonheur immense empreint d'innocence ?