Umut(35) is an actor who wants to act in movies, Asiye(43), is a director at their private theater company. following umut’s father’s death, his mother marries a man with three children, and he is sent to live with his uncle in bursa. he has not had any contact with his mother for twenty years. until he is told that his mother has come to bursa for her illness. so he is forced to take care of her. at the same time learns about asiye’s pregnancy. the situation causes a massive crisis in his life. because of all the feelings, umut accumulated over the years, he lives a great showdown with his mother.
Interior da Turquia, anos 1960. Um novo professor é enviado para trabalhar numa pequena vila que sequer possui uma escola. Lá, ele logo faz amizade com um simpático homem deficiente. O professor reúne os moradores para construir uma escola ali para ensinar não só as crianças da região, mas também o seu novo amigo.
Derya works in a bank's call centers to support her elderly mother. One day her life is suddenly turned upside down as she begins to hear a strange voice whispering to her. The source of the voice is a mystery and it tells her things and facts no-one else would know. Word gets out, and many in the community start to believe she is receiving messages from the divine. But soon the voice starts to become louder and louder, its tone becomes more and more threatening and Derya’s life starts spiraling into a nightmare.
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......
Bahar (Nurgül Yeşilçay) is sent to New York because a serious illness. Treated in hospital Seymen Aga (Özcan Deniz) and Bahar try together to overcome this disease. Seymen Aga trying to be as strong as possible and not to give up. In Kapadokya, where their family and friends, they are waiting for the good news from the U.S..
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.
