After several years of numbly mourning his parents death, 26 year old Selim takes a chance on the US lottery for passports and wins. He decides to sell the family olive grove to raise enough money to live in Manhattan and to break all roots to Turkey, leaving his girlfriend behind. When Selim's...
Ahmet, who confuses an Edgar Degas painting that his father brought home for a woman named Fahriye, who is constantly talked about in the house; interprets the unrest at home through the painting, and the painting becomes a symbol of forbidden facts for Ahmet.