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When he was a little child, Halil İbrahim lost his father due to a blood feud and was exiled to Istanbul. Twenty years later, he returns to his homeland in the Karadeniz region as a handsome, powerful young man. He plans to marry the girl he loves, Yasemin, and start a new life. However, events do not allow this. Halil İbrahim embarks on a journey of revenge, and his life will change completely when he encounters Zeynep from the Leto family.
Haydar Ali avenges his family's murder and ends up in prison, where he falls into the orbit of Turkey's most dangerous crime cartel. Recruited by intelligence to dismantle it from within, he must earn the trust of its ruthless boss — a man who becomes his closest ally. Three years later, freedom brings the deadliest complication yet: the woman he never stopped loving is now that same man's wife.
Esra divorced Ozan when his startup dreams left them broke — eight years later she discovers he's now a wildly successful tech billionaire and schemes to get close to him by becoming an intern at his company.
To an outsider, Neslihan leads a perfect life. But one day, her delusions of grandeur finally come crashing when she finds out the love of her life, her husband, has been cheating on her for quite some time. That too, with Damla of all people, who was like a sister to her. Not wanting to give up, she decides to fight for herself, her family, and her children.
During the civil war in Turkey, many people were assassinated or disappeared while in custody. Mothers and families of the ones who disappeared in custody have held a demonstration every Saturday for the last 15 years. These mothers are called the Saturday mothers. The project tells the story of the encounter between an ex-soldier and a mother who's son disappeared in custody.
Boutheyna Bouslama remembers her holidays in Syria in the summer of 1994: a boy offered her an armful of cherries. He was called Oussama. Twenty years later, his name appears in the credits of Return to Homs by Talal Derki, programmed in Istanbul. The childhood friend has become “the man with the camera”, a “media activist” documenting the demonstrations and their repression by the Assad regime, until his arrest in 2012. The filmmaker sets off in search of the man whose name features on the list of the 70,000 forced disappearances that have occurred since the beginning of the conflict.
