Turgut is an actor who performs in school shows to support his son Umut, earning a living by clowning around at parties. Umut's mother, Simay, left him and started living with someone else, enjoying her life. One day, in the middle of a show, he receives a phone call informing him that Umut has fallen ill at school and been taken to the hospital. Umut is diagnosed with leukemia. Now Turgut has only one goal: to find the money needed for his son's treatment. Meanwhile, years later, Umut's mother Simay reappears, complicating matters further for Turgut.

In a Turkish mountain village in the 1950s, Saniye develops fatal tuberculosis and suggests her husband take another wife for the good of the family. Six months later she is mysteriously cured and returns to her family's home—and her husband's new wife.