Deemed "the D.W. Griffith of Turkish Cinema," Omer Lutfi Akad directs this 1952 film based upon real events that took place in İstanbul, in the following years of World war II. It is about a love triangle that led to homicide. It was a stylistic departure of what otherwise had been typical of Turkish melodramas of the time.

Released from jail after a twenty-year stretch, Nazim returns to Istanbul to find life in turmoil, his family life ruined, and has to deal with a series of personal disasters in the process.