Turkish Film Festival 2011

The film starts on a summer holiday in Kas, where the couple are barely talking. İsa is taking pictures of ancient monuments for a perpetually unfinished thesis or the university class he teaches; Bahar watches. At the beach she falls asleep and dreams that he is smothering her in sand. After rehearsing his speech while Bahar is swimming, Isa tells her that he wants to break up. While riding back to the city on a motorbike she suddenly covers his eyes with her hands; they have an accident, but get away with it. The couple go their separate ways and Bahar tells him not to call.

As fall follows summer, back in Istanbul, İsa visits a woman, Serap, with whom he cheated on Bahar before. He drags her onto the floor in her apartment and rapes her. Winter arrives and İsa dreams of a holiday in the sun but instead flies to Agri, the snowy eastern province of Turkey, where Bahar is working as an art director filming a TV series on location. He tries to win her back, but she rejects his advances. She has recently lost her father, but he is indifferent to her suffering. She comes to his hotel room late at night and stays overnight, but in the morning he flies off alone.

At the beginning of his summer holiday, a somewhat naïve trainee teacher Daniel buys a ring from a stall run by Juli. The ring bears a Mayan sun symbol, which, according to Juli, has the power to lead him to the woman of his dreams, whom he will recognise by a similar sun symbol. As Juli has the ring's counterpart, and as she is in love with him, she invites Daniel to a party that evening, hoping that they will meet. Curious, Daniel goes to the party and meets Melek, who is wearing a T-shirt  imprinted with a sun symbol. Convinced that she is the woman of his dreams, Daniel talks to her. Melek is only passing through and looking for a place to spend the night. After spending the evening together seeing the sights of Hamburg, Daniel invites her to spend the night in his apartment. Daniel and Melek leave the party just as Juli arrived. She sees them leave together. In her disappointment, she decides to leave town. Next day she goes to the Autobahn to hitch a ride, with no predetermined destination. As fate would have it, Daniel is the first car to stop, on his way back from the airport, where he has just dropped Melek off. He has decided to drive toIstanbul in search of Melek, who, he knows, will be under the bridge over the Bosphorus a few days later. Daniel takes Juli with him in his neighbour's rusty old car. And this is the beginning a long and exciting trip across Eastern Europe.