In the mid-1990s, one morning in Istanbul, a young man named Deniz Şahin is abducted from his street by armed and civilian individuals. The young man is taken to the interrogation center of the counter-guerrilla organization JİTEM, and his captors are members of the JİTEM team. The team's goal is to extract information about the organization's activities from Deniz Şahin, whom they accused of being a member of the organization.
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
To win the celebrity and self-made wealth he craves, an aimless, twenty-something Manhattan playboy devises a film based on his party-boy, club-going lifestyle, and hires a self-destructive aspiring playwright to ghost the feature script.
Antonia is a single mother who works as a hotel maid in Berlin. A normal hot summer day takes a dramatic turn when she crosses paths with a particular guest of the hotel, famous blind portrait painter Julius Pass.