A young woman moves with her husband and small child to her husband's family in Istanbul. Her son becomes ill and the doctor tells her that he will soon die if he doesn't get an operation. The family refuses to help her because they can't see anything wrong with the boy and all money is needed for a new shop they have just opened. When her son dies she takes a desperate step.
Zeynep est muette. Elle vit avec son père, vend des fleurs et économise pour payer l'opération qui doit lui rendre la parole jusqu'au jour où il est assassiné par cinq évadés de prison. Sous le choc, elle se remet à parler. Cherchant à se venger, elle apprend le karaté et le tir au pistolet auprès de Murat. Elle tombe amoureuse de lui, mais il est tué par les évadés. Zeynep s'engage alors dans la police pour les poursuivre.
The protagonist of the film is Cabbar (performed by Güney). Cabbar is directed to support his crowded kurdish family - five children, a wife, and a grandmother - with the earnings from an old phaeton with two exhausted, half-dead horses. The family tries to survive in a damp and dingy living-quarters. Cabbar does not have a good run of business. He is indebted almost to everyone. His single hope is in the lottery tickets, which he continuously buys. He has bound his hope to these pieces of paper.