A female medical student is torn between the rational science of her professor-lover and the mystical pseudo science of her amateur doctor father, who says you can diagnose a patient by simply looking into their eyes.
The marriage of Derya and Aziz is under pressure after losing their jobs because of state arbitrariness and moving to Istanbul to live with Aziz's parents. They and their 13-year-old daughter Ezgi have to redefine their way of life.
Set in a warm summer in 1990 in former East Germany, it follows a young woman who begins a relationship with a charismatic farmer who is twice her age.