Başak Köklükaya

Isa, a walk-on in movie productions, is blamed for a fifty-dollar robbery in a mafia-rooted environment. As a result, he is badly beaten and given twenty-four hours to return the money. Instead of finding the money, Isa finds a gun. He decides to commit suicide. Just when he is about to pull the trigger, the doorbell rings…

Harun, a rich and successful engineer, finds out that his wife, Nilgun, is having an affair. At first, he is reluctant to confront her and hides what he knows. Time passes with a painfully slow pace; the uncertainty is unbearable. Finally, he decides to make Nilgun confess. The night turns out to be long. As the couple, who have been married for seven years, proceed into the darkness of human-ness, it becomes impossible for them to recognize each other. Pleading mixes with violence; tears with screams.

Francesco and Marta are married, and they run a small design company in Rome. When Francesco's long forgotten aunt, Anita, dies in Istanbul, he travels there to look after the sale of the hamam he inherited. There, he meets the family who runs the hamam, gets attracted to one of them and to the whole Turkish atmosphere, and so he decides not to sell the hamam.