Growing up in a house where her brothers are considered more valuable, İlhan decides to have a child when she learns that she is about to enter menopause. He just broke up with his boyfriend. Psychology graduate student makes a deal with Mustafa for money and becomes pregnant. İlhan and Mustafa decide to spend the pregnancy process in the village house of Mustafa's family. İlhan is distant to himself and everyone else. Meanwhile, a deaf and dumb, five-year-old Zel, who lives in the village, loses her grandmother, his only being. The little girl, who does not communicate with anyone, suddenly becomes attached to her when she smells the daffodils collected by her grandmother in Ilhan. What Zel can tell without words will open Ilhan's heart.
'Selam' is a Turkish movie that tells the impressive stories of three Turkish teachers who are idealists working at schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs on three different continents and in three different countries: Afghanistan, Senegal, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This story is based on true events that has been in progress for more than 20 years in which a number of young people in love of peace and humanity leave their countries to teach, help and live in countries they have never heard of before. This is the story of people who live for their ideals and other people before themselves, and who leave their families, loves, friends, countries behind. They set on this pet just with the inspiration of the words which said "A couple of eyes are waiting for you here, but thousands of eyes are waiting in faraway lands." They had sacrifice and kindness in their bags, love in their hearts and a smiling Selam (greetings) in their tongues. - Written by Akif Okumus
