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A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.

Lost his father and then his mother when he was very young, Osman lives with his grandmother. His speech disorder isolates him more and more in the small town he lives and his school. One day he receives a box from his father’s bibliopole.

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Gece's dreams are put on hold when she moves to Foça to support her special needs sister. There, she meets Özgür, a sailing instructor caring for his brother with Asperger's Syndrome. As Gece learns from Özgür and embraces maturity, her relationship with her boyfriend Emir faces challenges. She must choose between pursuing true love or staying committed to her previous life.

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“Daydreamers” is the story of four red-hot teenagers that are eager to grow up. Deniz, Aslı, Efe and Mine live in a beach town that is full of colorful people in the summer but deserted in the winter. Deniz wants to detach himself from his happy and dependable family and find his own way. Aslı tries to act tough but is very sensitive inside. Efe tries to hide his pain with his breezy and jokey attitude. And the couch grass, rebellious Mine… Intimate friendships, first loves, pressure of exams, school and family problems that are hard to overcome… Everything we went through as teenagers are all part of this series.

Learning that Iraz does not have a life of 2 months in reality, Zelis and Mustafa were married to each other in order to inherit her money and the adventure began.