In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.

Captain Talat and Necip work in charge of the security chief Mansur Pasa. Talat fancies Necip's cousin Cemile. Necip makes a plot declaring Talat a traitor. Necip wants to marry Cemile but she commits suicide on their wedding night. Talat gets out from prison and joins a gang of bandits. Necip gets engaged with Mansur Pasa's daughter Cavidan. Talat kidnaps her, and tells her father they have spent the night together. Talat is prisoned. The gang rescues him and Talat prevents Cavidan from marrying Necip by revealing the truth about Necip to her father so finally Mansur Pasa agrees to their marriage. Happy days commence for the loving couple..

Tigin, born under a blood-stained omen in the Turkistan village of Yesi, grows into a chieftain determined to unite the Turkic tribes and build a mighty state, while Olcayto, rescued as the lone survivor of a brutal raid, dedicates his life to avenging his dead family.

Murat, who started a legal battle against his relatives with lawyer Sevil, begins to question his life in this process.

Turkish adaptation of Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" (This Gun for Hire).

Captain Faruk is assigned to the northern front during World War I. He kills an elderly Romanian general who resists him in a house where he has taken refuge. The general's daughter, Mariya, informs her brother, Captain Polibas, of her father's death and takes refuge with her aunt. The town of Ivesti, where her aunt lives, is also occupied by Turkish soldiers. Captain Faruk is placed in Mariya's aunt's house by the mayor of Ivesti. Captain Faruk tries to make Mariya forgive him. The two will eventually fall in love with each other.

Recai has raised his daughter Seref like a man. She secretly attends the meetings of the patriots. Seref and her cousin Mujgan take music lessons from the journalist Feyyaz. Seref and Feyyaz fall in love but Mujgan is in love with Feyyaz as well. Feyyaz gets arrested in an assassination attempt against the Sultan.