沃拉尔的人生平凡无奇。他生长于一个虔诚的家庭，通过经营一家坐落于伊斯坦布尔美国领事馆对面的照相馆，履行着作为养家糊口之人的职责，供养年轻的儿子和生病的父亲。此外，他还延续家族传统，指导儿子成为一个正直的人。但在表象之下，沃拉尔也有一个秘密：他和年轻的女顾客——为了申请美国签证而找他拍照的索奈有了外遇。索奈一心想要离开这里，在梦想破灭后，愤怒的她和沃拉尔起了争执，威胁到了他平静的生活。最终，沃拉尔必须做出选择：是诚实地面对自己犯下的过错，还是掩盖真相、走上道德沦丧的黑暗之路？

Last days of 1941 summer, the era of Obligation, during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War. In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil, there are two poets in their early twenties: Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur. They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in their lungs and love of poetry in their hearts for years. Two poets who have the constant habit of making bets on things that they do not own, make a bet on a beautiful girl. They will both write a poem for her and whichever Suzan likes, the other will fade from the scene..