Mustafa Onur Akpınar

The Shadow of Çınar is the story of how the life of young Çınar (meaning plane) who used to have a happy life with her husband and three children turned upside down in a night… Under the Shadow of the Plane is the struggle of a young women whose family broke up with a slander and whose life was stolen for existing… The Shadow of Çınar is the story of those are hit for six by people whom they think are their friends, who are patient and far from complaining and become comrades with longing…

Elif (Ergül Miray Şahin), an idealistic eighteen-year-old girl living in a village, aspires to become a doctor and study at the Istanbul University. With the help of Deniz Aydin, a good-hearted soldier who was on duty in her village at the time, helps her escape with him from her father who wanted to marry her to a man in exchange of money. Deniz immediately falls in love with Elif's pure and strong character. Elif while in Istanbul soon finds out she has to take off her hijab to study in the university.