在这部大多数剧情片中,21岁的梅坎是个富二代，在伊斯但堡的生活富足却空虚：和他父母住在一起，在父亲的建筑公司做个白领，和他的狐朋狗友花天酒地。直到遇到来自东土耳其的库尔德女孩古尔，梅坎开始渐渐有了自信，并决定离开专制的父母独立生活。但专横的父亲不允许他脱离主流的期望，在主流社会眼里，库尔德人等同于分裂国家的人。梅坎是否意志坚定，可以摆脱父亲的束缚？在通俗故事下，导演不只尖锐地批评土耳其男性主导的阶级社会，似乎也是一种嘲讽式的自我针砭。
Mertkan has a simple life in Istanbul: 'working' as an office-boy in his dad's construction company, hanging out with his male friends in malls and discos, cruising with his dad's 4-wheel drive at night. There is no urgency for him to find a meaning to this emptiness. When he meets Gul, a Kurdish girl from Eastern Turkey, putting herself through university by working as a waitress, Mertkan has a chance to change the futility of his life. But his father opposes his connection with 'those people who only want to divide our country' and reminds Mertkan that 'we are all Turkish and we are all Muslims'. Insidiously Mertkan bows to the social values of the 'Majority' when faced with a choice, and becomes the 'proper man' his dad wanted him to be.
