Volkan Akbaş

The film is based on a true story that took place in Düzce in 1954. The spell "Azem," meaning "defender," gives the film its name. The thriller was filmed in a village in Düzce, where the events took place.

Sophisticated black magic were hatched by a malignant sheikh and a mother who came back to visit her son and his wife. The black magic purpose were inconspicuous but it ended up with a crime committed by the wife on her husband.

Ceren, trying to escape her past and build a new life for herself, returns to the village where she spent her childhood years later, only to encounter inexplicable events. With her arrival, the dark past that the village has silently hidden for so long awakens, and the curse thought to be forgotten begins to manifest itself. But the truth awaiting Ceren is far more shocking. Learning that she is the one they have been waiting for all these years, the young woman is drawn into the center of supernatural events that will change the fate of the town, along with an ancient seal that appears on her body. In this struggle surrounded by secrets from the past, curses that have lasted for generations, and unseen forces, Ceren must confront both her own destiny and the darkness that has held the village captive for centuries.