Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local...
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.