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.

Başak is a middle-aged, single, successful but obsessive woman. She could not overcome the cancer she had been battling for years and decides to kill herself. It is August and that global warming has taken the whole world by storm she waits for the train that will take her to her death between the rails. Başak sees tortoises between the rails and learns that farmers throw tortoises between the rails to die in the sun. The train that will take her to death never comes.