• Suat, who still lives with his mother, father, and sister, works at his father’s store whenever he is not practicing as a goalkeeper for Esnaf Spor, an amateur football team. Suat is in love with Nurten, the neighborhood beauty, but she has never responded to any of the many secret letters he has sent to her through little Mustafa. The whole neighborhood’s greatest wish is for Esnaf Spor to win the amateur football league championship, which would also give them a shot at becoming a professional club.

• Sergeant Cemil is a hard-nosed police officer. One day he learns that his only daughter suffers from a terminal illness. When he realizes that playing “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” is the only thing in life that she’s clinging to, his life changes dramatically. He puts his position in danger by setting up a theater at the police station in order to make his daughter’s wishes come true.

• As Nasuhi is returning to a homeland he had left behind years ago, his young nephew, Selim, who was selected in the lottery for American citizenship, is heading out to a new life. Also, Olga, a Russian girl, who has runaway from home to search for her estranged father who is a long-distance voyage sea captain, finds her way to Istanbul. She had believed that her father was in Istanbul, but learns that he has moved on to Sydney. While she looks for money to get to Australia, she gets into trouble.

• Ahmet a former war reporter, is now searching for tranquility in his life. He has traveled to Urfa, hoping to photograph deserted houses and stay with his old friend Ibrahim. However, the day after he arrives, he witnesses a murder which upsets all his plans and transforms his life into a nightmare. Ibrahim mysteriously disappears, and the police suspect and arrest Ahmet. Meanwhile, gunmen are after him. In the midst of all this, he encounters Arzuhan, a young woman searching for the truth about the murders.

• Renowned poet-writer Kemal Yilmaz is an old customer of Metin, who is a taxi driver. They have a warm friendship that has been established over years. The writer learns that he is terminally ill and will soon die. The only aim that he has left in life is to find the killers of his murdered friends. Metin can’t understand Kemal’s sense of idealism, and has only ever wanted to remain where he is, melting away into the banality of everyday life.

• This group of old friends from Bozcaada, after many years find themselves all together on the island. Semsi, a mechanic, is pure hearted, totally naïve and tied to his religious beliefs. Celal and Zarife have been married for forty years and have two children. Galip is a hopeless romantic. He has sustained a perfect love for 35 years with a Cuban woman, Rosa even though he only saw her once. One day Galip tells his friends that he has decided to go to Cuba and find his love Rosa. All the friends put forth an unimaginable effort to unite him with his love.

• Harun is a rich and successful engineer. One day he realizes that his wife Nilgün, has cheated on him. He loves his wife very much and doesn’t want to believe it. So he doesn’t say anything to her. But time passes slowly and the uncertainness of the situation makes him suffer. Finally he decides to make her confess everything to him. A long night of interrogation begins, and seven years of marriage is overshadowed by a great darkness. They realize that they didn’t know each other very well. After the night of yelling, begging, tears, and violence everything finishes between them. Harun, faced with the reality of his life, sinks into a horrible depression.

• The script was influence by the Albert Camus novel “The Stranger”. The story is about an accountant who doesn’t want to use his will power. Musa, who works at the customs head office, believes that life is silly and nonsensical. He doesn’t make any effort to change his life; he lets it go in the way it does because he thinks everything will have the same outcome regardless of whatever he does. In an example of this behavior, when his mother dies he is left basically unaffected. Although he loves her, her death even makes him happy.

• It’s 1948 in a modest village in south-eastern Turkey. Two young people, madly in love, are about to be married. Their fathers are old and close friends. One of the fathers’ has just become the new Customs Director. His job is to set up a customs post at the border, dividing the village into two pats. The border set by the Customs Director shatters both a strong friendship and a deep love, when in fact; the actual border is merely an absurd barbed wire extending through the middle of a serene desert.