Melike Demirağ

Из-за кровной вражды семья крестьян решает продать своих овец, самый ценный товар в далекой Анкаре. Во время длительного путешествия на поезде приходится платить взятки мелким чиновникам, овец крадут или они умирают в тесном душном вагоне, а недомогание жены одного из сыновей перерастает в смертельную болезнь.

After betraying his social class, denying his peasant roots and fleeing his native village, Ahmed has become a successful businessman and has found a place in the sun among the bourgeoisie. Azem, his childhood friend, has followed a quite different way. refusing the rat race, he has remained close to people of humble origin. Politically committed, he aspires to be useful to his country and more particularly to the forsaken rural world. The two former friends meet again. Due to the influence of Azem, Ahmed gradually becomes aware that his life is a failure.