Garip Bülbül is about the life story of the great bard Neşet Ertaş. Neşet Ertaş, who signed 400 records and many cassettes throughout his life, wrote many poems under the pen name "Garip". The film tells the unknowns about both the private and career life of Neşet Ertaş, who passed away in 2012.

It follows a man as he gets an epiphany in a repair shop and ends up becoming a mechanic's apprentice.

In 1978, five leftist youths who believed that the leftist revolution could be realized through politics, not violence, gathered in a house and started to talk about the magazine they had published. The unexpected events that take place later that night reveal the political chaos in Turkey before the 1980 coup d'état.

Hasan returns to his hometown as a young teacher after years in Diyarbakır. An anonymous letter he receives at school pushes him to seek the truth to defend someone wronged. While facing personal dilemmas and societal pressures, he forms an emotional bond with his family’s old, abandoned house, as the lines between right and wrong begin to blur.