Fikret Fırtına

Reminiscent of Martin Scorsese's 1985 production, After Hours, this film narrates the events of a night in the chaotic backstreets of Beyoğlu in Istanbul. The day he receives his wage, and after arguing with his wife, Haydar (Tarik Akan) leaves the house in a fury and heads to Beyoğlu for a wild night out. However, a prostitute and her pimp bring him such troubles, and he finds himself penniless and in police custody.

Osman is a jealous and proud gentleman. Zala, who must have married him at a young age is unhappy. Avci, caught in a storm and had to take refuge in his hut, is an attractive young man who knows how to take advantage of his environment.

A young woman whose husband works as a laborer in Saudi Arabia returns home to find her daughter Ceylan missing. The woman suffers a great shock and loses her mind. Ceylan has been kidnapped by a young couple who work as cleaners and have no children of their own. Their goal is to extort money from their wealthy grandmothers, who live for the love of their grandchildren. The son-in-law, who had been ostracized by his mother-in-law due to his gambling addiction, manages to salvage his situation thanks to the child he kidnapped. The elderly woman, overjoyed at the prospect of having a grandchild, opens her home to her daughter and son-in-law. Years pass, and the young woman, who has lost her mind, goes to work at a wealthy estate. There, she encounters her daughter Ayşe. However, they do not recognize each other. Ayşe finds the closeness she could not find with her stepmother, whom she believed to be her real mother, in the cleaning woman.

Nuri has a low salary job and can't convince his wife to live with it, so the wife (her name Nuriye) tries to go out and work with her brother at a disco and this makes Nuri become crazy.

Müslim is a poor man who struggles from dawn to dusk to provide for his children. Just as it is difficult to breathe in the struggle for life, it is equally difficult for Müslim to remain standing upright in this hell.