This film focuses on Trotsky's exile in Buyukada, Istanbul, one of the first places the revolutionary theorist settled to live and write after Stalin forced him into exile in 1929.

The story of the film begins with a French painter arriving in a village in Turkey with his two children for a long vacation. Completely isolated from the modern world, the village does not use money except at the grocery store, and the arrival of the stranger brings about a number of changes.