Aliye Karahan

Planning to take any job she can get in order to save enough money and leave Turkey for the U.S., Mina is hired at an Istanbul café as a fortune teller who reads the dregs in coffee cups. She discovers she has the ability to offer comfort and insight to the customers who are just as lost in the wilderness as she is.

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…