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The story of the emotional distance between a couple who love each other very much.

A young man with psychological problems kidnaps a ballerina he is in love with. His goal is to spend the rest of his life with her, but his obsessions and the unfolding events will cause the ballerina to experience difficult moments.

Leyla, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, goes to Turkey for a vacation with her father. Bored with her own life, Leyla wants to be alone and wander around alone. While the nanny is sleeping, she escapes from the hotel at night. She goes to the house of a man named Yilmaz, whom she met on the street.

Savaş decides to take his revenge against the attorney that caused his sentense.

A triptych of literary adaptations explores past, present and future in rural Turkey. “Düne Özlem” (from Hulki Aktunç’s Bir Yergöstericinin Hayatı): A once-famed traveling critic returns after years to the cinema that launched his career—and finds it unrecognizably transformed. “Bugüne Özlem” (from Kemal Tahir’s Arabacı): A horse-drawn cart driver picks up two stranger women en route to a village—unaware they intend to marry him off to their spinster relative. “Yarına Özlem” (from Zeyyat Selimoğlu’s Bıldırcınlar): An old captain haunted by a fatal shipwreck readies quail-hunting with his grandson, even as his daughter-in-law waits in vain for her migrant husband to return from Germany. Each segment poignantly probes longing— for what was, what is, and what might yet come.