Tufan who works at a small print shop lives in Eskişehir with his wife Mukaddes and daughter Simge. Huriye, their lonely neighbour next door falls ill one night. A doctor recommends that she shouldn’t stay on her own. Tufan takes pity on Huriye, who has no family to turn to, and decides to host her at his house.

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.

Returning to her evacuated village to trace the past, musician Suna tries to get a confession from Bekir, a dementia patient she suspects of murdering her sister. In the process, the unexpected bond she forms with Bekir's rebellious daughter Fidan will both bring Suna closer to her family again and force her to confront the darkness within herself.

Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

2002 film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan