It is late 1990ies in Istanbul.
Duna, a young Istanbulian highschool teacher, wakes up one morning to the sound of fighter jets, later to find a group of soldiers at his door. A civil war has erupted and the country is being mobilized. Thus begins Duna`s journey to an uncertain future.
Meanwhile, during Duna`s absence from his neighborhood Kuzguncuk, a small village by the shores of Bosphorus that has long been a melting pot for Jewish, Armenian, Greek and Turkish communiti ...