Hannah Maynard, fiscal del Tribunal de La Haya para crímenes de guerra en la ex Yugoslavia, acusa a un comandante serbio de haber matado a bosnios. Sin embargo, su testigo principal podría estar mintiendo, por lo que el tribunal envía un equipo a Bosnia para investigar.
Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's family, as well as their various dealings with the underworld and the police. Moreover, being a Turk raised in a German foster family, he has also begun to understand and accept his own ethnicity.