Kemal was an orphaned child, but the people in his neighborhood took him under their wing and never abandoned him. The residents of the neighborhood played the biggest role in his life going so well, never allowing him to fall into hardship. However, no one could have imagined that Kemal would grow up to become a thief. But his conscience would not allow him to make this a habit, and he left it behind to fall in love with a girl. It all began with his love for Maryam.

When their neighborhood is in trouble, a formerly thieving couple tries to save it — to the dismay of the community and those who want it destroyed.

Maria suffers from the strangest illness; it resembles cancer but with one distinct difference: it somehow connects Maria to the fate of a 15th century woman named Donna Maria. Maria begins to time travel, gradually discovering the absolute brutality of history. She learns that Donna Maria was a Hungarian princess taken to a Bursa harem as a concubine of Ottoman's Sultan.

Askin Dünkü Çocuklari, tells a bittersweet love story from the 70s to the present day, blending it with the social issues of the period.