内雅特（巴吉·达弗拉克 饰）鳏夫父亲与妓女耶特（诺塞尔·柯丝 饰）同居了。后来内雅特发现耶特把自己的血汗钱都资助了在土耳其上学的女儿阿伊坦（努古尔·耶西塞 饰）。耶特的这个举动使内雅特对之改观不少。本以为大家都可以和平相处了，怎料耶特的离世再次使内雅特与父亲的矛盾加深。
内雅特想到了耶特在土耳其的女儿，便前往找寻。他到达后才知道阿伊坦是一名政治激进分子，为了躲过土耳其政府的追捕而逃到了德国。在德国逃难的阿伊坦得到好心人洛塔的帮助，让阿伊坦到自己的家里避难，但洛塔的母亲十分不满阿伊坦的到来，也阻止不了两人发展出一段情。
结果，阿伊坦还是被抓捕并遣送回了土耳其。洛塔为了营救自己的爱人，也千里迢迢来到了土耳其，可是营救的前路困难重重。

原籍土耳其的德国人卡德因（Birol Ünel）因妻子离开和失业对生活充满恨意，当摇滚和白粉不足以支撑他继续活下去时，他开车撞墙自杀，但没成功。在医院里，他结识父母也是土耳其人的、小他20岁的女孩西贝尔（Sibel Kekilli），后者为摆脱古板传统的父母，用假自杀的方式来到医院，但其父母仍追到医院让她尽快嫁个土耳其男人。
在西贝尔的请求下，卡德因与她假结婚，两人说好互不干涉对方的生活，西贝尔如愿过上饮酒作乐、频繁更换男友的自由与刺激兼有的日子，卡得因也因她的活泼与激情，重新燃起生命的希望。相安无事半年后，卡德因真的爱上了西贝尔，西贝尔也在偶然间发现自己对卡德因的情人充满嫉妒，可是生活却于此时将两人的距离越拉越开。

Thomas Arslan's second feature film and part of his Berlin-trilogy is a slow-paced milieu study of German-Turkish youth in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The film depicts the every day life, domestic conflicts, dreams and disappointments of three siblings and their aimless, meandering strolls through the Kreuzberg district. The family itself encapsulates the culture clash that is at the centre of many German-Turkish films. In Arslan's film, the mother is German, the father is Turkish and the children have to make up their own minds about their cultural allegiances. Seventeen-year-old Leyla tries to escape from her family by spending most of her time with her best friend Sevim. Her twenty-year-old brother, Erol, has chosen Turkish citizenship and, consequently, has to do military service in Turkey. His mother objects but Erol finds the prospect of continued unemployment and mounting debts, which he cannot repay, in Berlin far more threatening than the prospect of military service in Turkey and leaves. Eighteen-year-old Ahmed is the is about to do his 'Abitur' (final exams at secondary school) and, despite being the most 'assimilated' of the three siblings, finds the experience of living in between two cultures difficult.