Hakan Akol

After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's aged grand uncle, Nasuhi returns from Russia after 58 years he asks Selim to visit with him the olive grove of his youth. Before they depart, Nasuhi finds a beaten Russian girl, Olga who was robbed when she tried to sell herself to raise money to continue her own search for her sea faring father.

Thirtysomething Suat still lives with his parents and works at his father's store when not practicing as goalie for the local football team, Esnaf Spor. The neighborhood's greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur league championship.

Cuando el bandido Baran sale de la cárcel después de 35 años de condena, sólo recibe malas noticias: por una parte, su pueblo desapareció tras unas inundaciones; por otra, se entera de que lo delató un amigo suyo para robarle la novia y marchar a Estambul. Decide entonces ir a esa ciudad para recuperarla. Cuando llega a la capital turca, se hace amigo de un delincuente que le ayudará a buscar a la chica y a adaptarse a la vida en una ciudad tan peligrosa como Estambul.